Litorhina Bowden, 1975

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 : 203-205

Litorhina Bowden

Litorhina Bowden, 1975 b: 314 . Type species: Litorhynchus corticeus Bezzi, 1924 , by original designation

Exosoma Séguy, 1938 a: 333 . Type species: Litorhynchus erythraeus Bezzi, 1906 (as ‘ Exosoma erythraea Séguy’), by monotypy. [Unavailable; name proposed in synonymy with Tanyglossa maurus Thunberg and not made available before 1961.] [Preoccupied by Jacoby, 1903.]

Comments: Bowden (1975 b) explained the complex history of the name Litorhynchus Macquart. It had become familiar from the work of Bezzi (e.g. 1924), Hesse (1956) and others, for this distinctive African genus, but it is in fact a synonym of Exoprosopa Macquart , so a new name was required.

Keys: Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924); Senegal, François (1972); southern Africa, Hesse (1956), all as Litorhynchus .

Hosts: Recorded from Tiphiidae (once) and nests of Sphecidae (twice) ( du Merle 1975; Yeates & Greathead 1997).

Distribution:Afrotropical Region eastwards to India, but not recorded from North Africa. Africa South of the Sahara: 37 species, including the following new species.