Lomatia Meigen, 1820

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 : 178-179

Lomatia Meigen

Stygia Meigen, 1820: 137 . Type species: Anthrax belzebul Fabricius, 1794 , by subsequent designation

( Westwood, 1840: 131) [Type designation for Lomatia Meigen, 1822 , with Stygia in synonymy].

[Preoccupied by Latreille, 1804.]

Lomatia Meigen, 1822 : [Vorrede] (unpaginated) [1830: 324] (new replacement name for Stygia Meigen, 1820 ). Type species: Anthrax belzebul Fabricius, 1794 , by subsequent designation ( Westwood, 1840: 131).

Stygide Latreille, 1825: 491 (new replacement name for Stygia Meigen, 1820 ). [Unavailable; vernacular name without status in nomenclature.]

Stygidium Berthold, 1827: 500 (new replacement name for Stygia Meigen, 1820 ). Type species: Anthrax belzebul Fabricius, 1794 , automatic.

Stygides Latreille, 1829: 465 (new replacement name for Stygia Meigen, 1820 ). Type species: Anthrax belzebul Fabricius, 1794 , automatic.

Nettadion Gistel, 1848 : ix (unjustified new replacement name for Lomatia Meigen, 1822 ). Type species: Anthrax belzebul Fabricius, 1794 , automatic.

Ancentralis Bezzi, 1925: 199. Type species: Anthrax pictipennis Wiedemann, 1828 , by monotypy. [Unavailable; name proposed in specific synonymy with pictipennis Wiedemann and not made available before 1961. See Evenhuis (1991: 18) for details.]

Comments: Hesse (1956) recognised that the African species of Lomatia differ in appearance from the palaearctic species and probably constituted a separate genus,

but hesitated to describe a new genus because of his uncertainties over the status of the genus Canariellum . Greathead (1998) showed that the afrotropical species of Lomatia sensu lato differ from palaearctic species in the male and female genitalia, as well as in their vestiture and colour patterns, and proposed a separate genus to contain the African species. Thus, Lomatia is now restricted to palaearctic species.

Keys: Engel (1932 –7), Paramonov (1931).

Hosts: One record as ectoparasitoid on larvae of Tenebrionidae ( du Merle 1975) .

Distribution: Palaearctic. North Africa: 6 species ( Morocco to Libya, but surprisingly not Egypt).