Chalcochiton Loew, 1844

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), African Invertebrates 42 (1820), pp. 105-224 : 175-176

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scientific name	Chalcochiton Loew
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Chalcochiton Loew View in CoL

Chalcochiton Loew, 1844: 157 View in CoL . Type species: Chalcochiton speciosus Loew, 1844 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Logcocerius Rondani, 1863: 61 [1864: 61]. Type species: Anthrax holosericea Fabricius, 1794 View in CoL (as ‘ M. holosericeus Loew’), by original designation.

Loncocerius Bezzi in Becker, Bezzi, Bischof, Kertész & Stein, 1903: 182 (unjustified emendation of Logcocerius Rondani, 1863 ). Type species: Anthrax holosericea Fabricius, 1794 View in CoL , automatic.

Lonchocerius Bezzi, 1924: 4 (unjustified emendation of Logcocerius Rondani, 1863 ). Type species: Anthrax holosericea Fabricius, 1794 , automatic.

Comments: This genus had been previously synonymised with Cytherea , but the species are strikingly different in appearance and appear to have different hosts. Consequently,

it is now considered a valid genus.

Keys: Engel (1932 –7), Paramonov (1931), and for Egypt, Efflatoun (1945) , all as

Cytherea .

Hosts: One record from nest of Eumeninae ( du Merle 1975).

Distribution: Western Palaearctic Region. North Africa: 5 species; Chalcochiton argentifrons Macquart ( Morocco, Algeria, Libya), C. argyrocephalus Macquart

(Morocco-Egypt), C. bisalbifrons (Bezzi) ( Libya, Egypt), C. holosericea (Fabricius) (Morocco-Tunisia) , C. pallasii (Loew) ( Morocco) .