Canariellum Strand, 1928

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 : 178

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Canariellum Strand View in CoL

Canaria Becker, 1912: 422 . Nomen nudum .

Canaria Becker, 1913: 462 . Type species: Anthrax brunnipennis Macquart, 1839 View in CoL , by original designation. [Preoccupied by Partington, 1835.]

Canariellum Strand, 1928: 48 View in CoL (new replacement name for Canaria Becker, 1913 ). Type species: Anthrax brunnipennis Macquart, 1839 View in CoL , automatic.

Comments: This genus was erected for Anthrax brunnipennis Macquart , an endemic species from the Canary Islands, but the genus was long regarded as a synonym of Lomatia by authors who had not seen specimens. However, François (1970) collected a long series of C. brunnipennis , and redescribed and recognised Canariellum as a valid genus. Bowden (1975 b) showed that two African species described in Lomatia should also be included.

Keys: Included in keys to Lomatia spp. Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7); Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924).

Distribution: Africa and Canary Islands. Palaearctic: Canary Islands: 1 species Canariellum brunnipenne (Macquart) . Africa South of the Sahara: 2 species; C. acutangula (Bezzi) (Eastern South Africa), C. neavei (Bezzi) ( Malawi, possibly also Uganda (Greathead 1998)).