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Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae)
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Greathead, D. J., Evenhuis, N. L. (2001): Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae). African Invertebrates 42 (1820): 105-224, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975
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