Antonia Loew, 1856

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 : 181

Antonia Loew

Antonia Loew, 1856: 30 . Type species: Antonia suavissima Loew, 1856 , by monotypy.

Dimorphaphus Walker, 1871 a: 255. Nomen nudum .

Dimorphophora Walker, 1871 b: 272 . Type species: Dimorphophora syrphoides Walker, 1871 [= Antonia suavissima Loew, 1856 ], by monotypy.

Comments: Antonia spp. are elongate flies with a striking pattern of yellow and black cuticle. The sand chamber has been lost, and there is only a single spermatheca.

Keys: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7), Paramonov (1931); Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924); southern Africa, Hesse (1956).

Hosts: Species of Antonia have been reared from the nests of a Bembix sp. and a muddaubing wasp ( du Merle 1975).

Distribution: Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions. North Africa: 2 species; Antonia bouillonae Séguy ( Morocco, Tunisia), A. suavissima Loew ( Algeria, Egypt). Africa South of the Sahara: 7 species.