Adelidea 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 : 152

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Adelidea Macquart, 1840: 84 [1841: 362]. Type species: Adelidea fuscipennis Macquart, 1840 [= Bombylius anomalus Wiedemann, 1821 ], by original designation.

Sobarus Loew, 1855: 6 , 39 (as subgenus of Bombylius Linnaeus ). Type species: Bombylius anomalus Wiedemann, 1821 , by original designation.

Comments: Adelidea forms a clade with Sosiomyia in all cladograms found for the genera of Bombyliini (Greathead unpublished).The only important characters separating them are those used in the key:

Key: Hesse (1938).

Distribution: Southern Africa: Eastern and Western Cape: 8 species.