Parisus Walker, 1852

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 : 159

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7909975

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7909860

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scientific name

Parisus Walker
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Parisus Walker, 1852: 196 View in CoL . Type species: Parisus paterculus Walker, 1852 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Comments: The genus Parisus Walker was revived by Greathead (1995) for the majority of species in the Bombylius mundus group of Bezzi, Group 2 of Hesse (1938 1961). It is predominantly a southern African genus of species with pale bristles on the legs and mainly pale vestiture.

Key: Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924 as Bombylius mundus group); Southern Africa, Hesse (1938 as Bombylius Group 2).

Distribution: Africa and south-western Asia. Africa South of the Sahara: 45 species confined to southern Africa: Eastern Africa: 2 species; Parisus luteipennis (Bezzi) and P. pangoniiformis Greathead.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Loc

Parisus Walker

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L. 2001
2001
Loc

Parisus

WALKER, F. 1852: 196
1852
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