Haematobia Le Peletier & Serville, 1828

Couri, Márcia Souto, de Carvalho, Claudio J. B. & Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Taxonomy of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Namibia: a key to genera, diagnoses, new records and description of a new species, African Invertebrates 53 (1), pp. 47-47 : 52

Genus Haematobia Le Peletier & Serville, 1828

Represented by six species in the Afrotropical Region. The genus and one species are KHUH UHFRUGHG IURP 1DPLELD IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH. =XPSW (ƚ97) UHYLVHG WKH $IURWURSLFDO fauna.

Diagnosis: General colouration dark greyish, with yellowish tinge; head 1.25× as wide as high; arista plumose only on dorsal surface; palpus spatulate, slightly narrowed in EDVDO ó WR ò, UHDFKLQJ WLS RI KDXVWHOOXP ZKHQ SURERVFLV ÀH[HG; SURVWHUQXP VHWXORVH; proepisternal depression and postalar wall bare; prealar seta differentiated or vestigial; lower calypter ca 2× as long as upper calypter.