Pantostomus Bezzi

Greathead, David J. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2004, New species of Bombylioidea in Mario Bezzi’s Unpublished Hungarian Museum Manuscript, Zootaxa 773, pp. 1-56 : 26

Pantostomus Bezzi

Bezzi (1921b, 1922) introduced Pantostomus as a new genus with a brief diagnosis and designation of P. gibbiventris as genotype but in both publications indicates that it will be fully described in his Hungarian Museum paper. A full description appears in the manuscript in which he compares it to Tomomyza . Hesse (1956) pointed out that Malloch’s (1932) description of the genus was based on a misidentification of the genotype, P. g i b ­ biventris, which he confused with another species from Zimbabwe, later described as P. mallochi Hesse (1956: 69). Hesse went on to provide a full description based on the correctly identified genotype and other species, described as new.