Palintonus François, 1964

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 : 166

Palintonus François

Palintonus François, 1964 a: 323 . Type species: Lepidophora austeni Paramonov, 1949 , by original designation.

Comments: The single described species was originally included in the New World eclimine genus Lepidophora Westwood , which is similar in appearance and also has scales on the wings, but François (1964 a) showed that the African species differed in so many characters that it should be placed in his new genus, Palintonus .

Distribution:Afrotropical.Africa South of the Sahara: forests of Uganda and Democratic Republic Of Congo, Kinshasa: 1 species; Palintonus austeni (Paramonov) . A second species from the Côte d’Ivoire is known only from a photograph ( Lachaise & Bowden 1976).