Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Rognes, Knut, 2009, Revision of the Oriental species of the Bengalia peuhi speciesgroup (Diptera, Calliphoridae), Zootaxa 2251 (1), pp. 1-76 : 9

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), Pont (1980) and Rognes (2006).

The genus Bengalia has been characterised by several authors, including Bezzi (1911, 1913), Surcouf (1920), Malloch (1927), Senior-White et al. (1940), Zumpt (1956), and Lehrer (2005, as Bengaliidae ), and its defining character states need not be repeated here. A phylogenetic analysis of its systematic position is given by Rognes (1997) and a discussion of Lehrer’s work on the genus is given by Rognes (2006).