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Parisus Walker 1852
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Parisus Walker
Parisus Walker, 1852: 196. Type species: Parisus paterculus Walker, 1852, 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.
Notes
Published as part of Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), pp. 105-224 in African Invertebrates 42 (1820) on page 159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Genus
- Parisus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parisus Walker, 1852 sec. Greathead & Evenhuis, 2001
References
- WALKER, F. 1852. Vol. 1. Diptera [Part 3]. In: Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F. R. S., F. L. S., & c. London: Van Voorst pp. 157 - 252.
- HESSE, A. J. 1938. A revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of southern Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 34: 1 - 1053.