Dicranoclista Bezzi, 1924

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 : 190

Dicranoclista Bezzi

Dicranoclista Bezzi, 1924: 178 . Type species: Dicranoclista simpsoni Bezzi, 1924 , by original designation.

Comments: This genus has a strange disjunct distribution, with two African species and another two species present in the more arid parts of central and western North America. The male genitalia are similar to those of Spogostylum spp. , but the females have globular or broad, tubular spermathecal bulbs and short ducts with well developed sperm pumps (Greathead 1993).

Key: Greathead (1993).

Distribution: Afrotropical and Nearctic Regions. Africa South of the Sahara: 2 species; Dicranoclista auliae Greathead ( Sudan) , D. simpsoni Bezzi ( Gambia, Senegal).