Legnotomyia Bezzi, 1902

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 : 163

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Legnotomyia Bezzi View in CoL

Legnotus Loew, 1855: 6 , 41 (as subgenus of Bombylius Linnaeus ). Type species: Bombylius trichorhoeus Loew, 1855 , by original designation. [Preoccupied by Schiødte, 1848.]

Legnotomyia Bezzi, 1902: 191 View in CoL (replacement name for Legnotus Loew, 1855 ). Type species: Bombylius trichorhoeus Loew, 1855 View in CoL , automatic.

Psiatholasius Becker, 1906: 145 . Type species: Psiatholasius bombyliiformis Becker, 1906 , by original designation.

Comments: Species of Legnotomyia are very bare, have a characteristic broad, rounded abdomen with, in most instances, a banded pattern, and the sclerotisation of the first tergum is interrupted medially. The wing infuscation is sexually dimorphic, being more intense and restricted in area in males. Spermathecae narrow, tubular, with short ducts.

Key: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7), Paramonov (1947)

Distribution: Western Palaearctic, Eastern Africa. North Africa: 3 species; Legnotomyia singularis (Macquart) , ( Algeria, Tunisia), L. fascipennis Bezzi ( Egypt) , L. leyladea

Efflatoun ( Egypt) . Africa South of the Sahara: Kenya, Tanzania: 1 species; L. striata

(Bischof).