Genus Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy

Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 425 . Type species: Bengalia testacea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, by designation of Duponchel (1842: 542) (= Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819).

For lists of generic synonyms see James (1977) and Pont (1980). An updated list is given by Rognes (2011b). Rognes (2015) established that an old, hitherto misunderstood name, Plinthomyia Rondani, 1875, is also a synonym of Bengalia . The genus Bengalia has been characterized by several authors, including Bezzi (1911, 1913), Surcouf (1920), Malloch (1927), Senior-White et al. (1940), Zumpt (1956), Lehrer (2005, as Bengaliidae) and Rognes (2011b), and its defining character states need not be repeated here. Rognes (1997) discussed the systematic position of Auchmeromyiinae and Bengaliinae (then considered separate) in the broader context of nonmonophyly of the Calliphoridae, whereas Rognes (2011b) presented a phylogenetic analysis of the relationship of the genera of the Bengaliinae (including Bengalia) within a revised concept of this subfamily.