Phthiria Meigen
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Phthiria Meigen
Phthiria Meigen, 1803: 268. Type species: Bombylius pulicarius Mikan, 1796, by monotypy.
Ptimia Rafinesque, 1815: 221 (unjustified emendation of Phthiria Meigen, 1803). Type species: Bombylius pulicarius Mikan, 1796, automatic.
Comments: The majority of known species have been recorded in North Africa or southern Africa. However, Phthiria fumata (Greathead) was described from Kenya (as Oligodranes) and females of P.? crocogramma Hesse have been collected in Kenya, as have single specimens of two further species. Thus, it is likely that further collecting in tropical Africa, especially Malaise and yellow-pan trapping, will indicate a more continuous distribution of species on the African continent.
Keys: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7); Egypt, Efflatoun (1945); southern Africa, Hesse (1975).
Hosts: Reared from Gelechiidae and Tortricidae (du Merle 1975). No African records.
Distribution: Old World and Chile. North Africa, Canary Islands: 13 species. Africa South of the Sahara: South and East Africa: 19 species.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Genus
- Phthiria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meigen
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- genus
References
- MEIGEN, J. W. 1803. Versuch einer neuen GattungsEintheilung der europaischen zweiflugligen Insekten. Magazin fur Insektenkunde 2: 259 - 281.
- RAFINESQUE, C. S. 1815. Analyse de la nature ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Le nature est mon guide, et Linneus mon maitre. Palermo: [Privately published].
- ENGEL, E. O. 1932 - 37. Bombyliidae. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region 4 (3): 1 - 619.
- EFFLATOUN, H. C. 1945. A monograph of Egyptian Diptera. Part VI. Family Bombyliidae. Section 1: Subfamily Bombyliidae Homeophthalmae. Bulletin de la Societe Fouad ler d'Entomol ogie 29: 1 - 483.
- DU MERLE, P. 1975. Les hotes et les stades pre-imaginaux des Dipteres Bombyliidae: revue bibliographique annotee. Bulletin SROP 1975 / 4: 1 - 289.