Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy

Rognes, Knut, 2011, Revision of the Bengalia spinifemorata species-group (Diptera, Calliphoridae), Zootaxa 2835, pp. 1-29 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.277348
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6190904
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scientific name	Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy
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Genus Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL View at ENA

Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 425 View in CoL . Type species: Bengalia testacea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 View in CoL , by designation of Duponchel (1842: 542) (= Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819 ).

Sindhigalia Lehrer, 2006: 13 View in CoL . Type species: Ochromyia jejutora Lehrer, 2005 (= Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819 ), by original designation. Syn. nov.

Anshuniana Lehrer, 2010: 28. Nomen nudum. No taxonomic characters. Syn. nov.

Anshuniana Lehrer & Wei, 2010: 23. Type species: Bengalia fani Feng & Wei, 1998 View in CoL , by original designation. Syn. nov.

Other generic synonyms are listed by James (1977), Pont (1980) and Rognes (2006, 2009a).

The genus Bengalia View in CoL has been characterised by several authors, including Bezzi (1911, 1913), Surcouf (1920), Malloch (1927), Senior-White et al. (1940), Zumpt (1956), and Lehrer (2005, as Bengaliidae), and its defining character states need not be repeated here. A phylogenetic analysis of its systematic position is given by Rognes (1997) and a discussion of Lehrer’s work on the genus is given by Rognes (2006, 2009b).