Bombylella Greathead, 1995
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Bombylella Greathead, 1995: 56 . Type species: Bombylius ornatus Wiedemann, 1828 , by original designation.
Comments: This genus corresponds to the Bombylius ornatus group of Bezzi (1924), Group 1 Section 3 of Hesse (1938). It is a predominantly African genus of rather slender, delicately built flies, mostly associated with dense savanna or forest vegetation.
Keys: Palaearctic, in keys to Bombylius spp. , Engel (1932 –7), Paramonov (1940 b); Egypt, Efflatoun (1945 in key to Bombylius spp. ); Afrotropical, Greathead (1999 a).
Hosts: There are two records from South Africa of rearings from the dung balls of Scarabaeidae ( Cambefort 1982) .
Distribution: North Africa: Egypt: 2 species; Bombylella atra (Scopoli) , B. pseudargentata (Paramonov) . Africa South of the Sahara: 16 species.
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