Anthracinae Latreille, 1804

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), African Invertebrates 42 (1820), pp. 105-224 : 182

Anthracinae Latreille

The Anthracinae are the largest subfamily of the Bombyliidae in terms of numbers of species. The tribal classification in present use follows Yeates (1994). However, he did not study many genera, and the limits of his tribes require re-evaluation since not all of the synapomorphies used to define them are present in all of the genera that have been allocated to them. The Anthracini, Exoprosopini and Villini are, for the most part, easily differentiated and allocated to the correct tribe, but the limits of the Aphoebantini, Prorostomatini and Xeramoebini in particular are not well defined. Likewise, some of the genera are poorly supported by synapomorphies.