Toxophora Meigen, 1803
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Toxophora Meigen View in CoL View at ENA
Toxophora Meigen, 1803: 270 View in CoL . Type species: Toxophora maculata Meigen, 1804 View in CoL [preoccupied, = Asilus fasciculatus Villers, 1789 View in CoL ], by subsequent monotypy (Meigen, 1804: 273).
Eniconevra Macquart, 1840: 110 [1841: 388]. Type species: Eniconevra fuscipennis Macquart, 1840 View in CoL , by monotypy.
Heniconevra Agassiz, 1846:138 , 178 (unjustified emendation of Eniconevra Macquart ), 1840. Type species: Eniconevra fuscipennis Macquart, 1840 View in CoL , automatic.
Heniconeura Bezzi in Becker et al., 1903: 189 (unjustified emendation of Eniconevra Macquart, 1840 ). Type species: Eniconevra fuscipennis Macquart, 1840 View in CoL , automatic.
Comments: Toxophora spp. are quite common but seldom abundant, so most collections contain only one or very few specimens taken on the same occasion.
Keys: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7); Egypt, Efflatoun (1945) ; Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924); Ghana, Bowden (1964); southern Africa, Hesse (1963).
Hosts: Parasitic in nests of solitary wasps (principally Eumeninae) and bees usually situated above ground ( du Merle 1975; Yeates & Greathead 1997).
Distribution: Cosmopolitan. North Africa: 6 species. Africa South of the Sahara: 18 species. Madagascar: 1 species; T. seyregi Séguy.
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Toxophora Meigen
| Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L. 2001 |
Heniconevra
| AGASSIZ, J. L. R. 1846: 138 |
Toxophora
| MEIGEN, J. W. 1803: 270 |