Eremyia Greathead, 1996

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 : 157

Eremyia Greathead

Eremyia Greathead, 1996 a: 15 . Type species: Chasmoneura argentata Greathead, 1967 , by original designation.

Comments: Eremyia was proposed for three species, formerly in Bombylisoma , from the eastern half of the Eremian Region, which form a terminal clade with Bombylisoma in phylogenetic analyses (Greathead unpublished). They are readily separated by from it by the vestigial pulvilli and silver-scale spots on either side of the antennae in both sexes.

Key: Included in key to afrotropical Bombylisoma spp. (Greathead 1996 b) .

Distribution: Caucasus to Central Asia, India and northeast Africa.Afrotropical: Eritrea: 1 species Eremyia argentata (Greathead) .