Aphoebantus Loew

A, Magdi S., 2007, Review of the tribe Aphoebantini Becker (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Egypt, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 1630, pp. 47-54 : 48

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.179379
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249935
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scientific name	Aphoebantus Loew
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Genus Aphoebantus Loew View in CoL View at ENA

Aphoebantus Loew, 1872: 77 View in CoL . Type species: Aphoebantus cervinus Loew, 1877 View in CoL .

Triodites Osten Sacken, 1877: 245 . Type species: Triodites mus Osten Sacken, 1877 View in CoL .

Meganedys Hull, 1973: 322 (as subgenus of Aphoebantus Loew View in CoL ). Type species: Aphoebantus petiolata Hull, 1973 View in CoL .

Diagnosis: This genus is characterized by the incomplete interradial crossvein, i.e. with only 2 submarginal cells, and by only two flagellomeres in the antennae; aedeagus conical and gonocoxae evenly tapered from a broad base.

References

Hull, F. M. (1973) Bee flies of the world. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Bulletin of the United States Natural Museum, 286, 1 - 687.

Loew, H. (1872) Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria decimal. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 16, 49 - 124.

Osten Sacken, C. R. (1877) Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi, and especially from California. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, 3, 189 - 354.