Neobombylodes Evenhuis, 1978

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 : 158

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scientific name	Neobombylodes Evenhuis
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Bombylodes Paramonov, 1940 b: 65 . Type species: Dischistus multisetosus Loew, 1857 , by original designation. [Preoccupied by Fauvel, 1904.]

Neobombylodes Evenhuis, 1978 b: 247 (new replacement name for Bombylodes Paramonov, 1940 ). Type species: Dischistus multisetosus Loew, 1857 , automatic.

Comments: The species are similar in appearance to Dischistus (Acanthogeron) spp., and were included in it by Engel (1932 –7) although the laterotergites are bare.

Key: Engel (1932 –7 as Dischistus ), Paramonov (1940 b as Bombylodes ).

Distribution: North Africa and Iran. North Africa: 3 species; Neobombylodes eximius (Becker) , E. giganteus (Villeneuve) , N. multisetosus (Loew) .