Plesiocera Macquart, 1840

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 : 207

Plesiocera Macquart

Plesiocera Macquart, 1840: 82 [1841: 360]. Type species: Plesiocera algira Macquart, 1840 , by monotypy. Calledax Hull, 1973: 338 (as subgenus of Plesiocera Macquart ). Type species: Plesiocera psammophila

Hesse, 1956, by original designation.

Comments: Yeates (1994) noted that the types species Plesiocera algira differs from the southern African species in possessing an indented eye margin and bisecting line. For this reason, Hull (1973) had proposed a new genus, Calledax , for the southern African species. Yeates (1994) considered that when the composition of the Prorostomatini is revised, Calledax will be revived and Plesiocera removed to another tribe. Plesiocera ochracea Greathead from Eritrea, Kenya and Arabia also lacks a bisecting line and would be included in Calledax .

Key: Southern Africa, Hesse (1956).

Distribution: Western Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions. North Africa: Algeria, Tunisia: 1 species; Plesiocera algira Macquart. Africa South of the Sahara: 9 species.