Villa Lioy, 1864

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 : 213

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Villa Lioy, 1864: 732 View in CoL . Type species: Anthrax concinna Meigen, 1820 View in CoL [= Anthrax abbadon Fabricius, 1794 View in CoL ],

by subsequent designation (Coquillett, 1910: 619).

Aspiloptera Künckel d’Herculais, 1905: 145 . Type species: Anthrax flavus Meigen, 1820 [= Musca hottentotta

Linnaeus, 1758], by monotypy.

Comments: Villa is a large, cosmopolitan genus of mostly very similar looking species, some of which can only reliably be separated by differences in the genitalia.

Keys: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7);Afrotropical, Bezzi, (1924); Eritrea /northern Ethiopia, Greathead (1967); southern Africa, Hesse (1956). Villa cingulata -paniscus group, François (1969).

Hosts: Internal parasitoids of the pupae of Lepidoptera , Tabanidae and Myrmeleontidae ( du Merle 1975; Yeates & Greathead 1997).

Distribution: Cosmopolitan. North Africa: 13 species. Canary Islands: 3 species; Villa . albiventris Frey, V. nigriceps (Macquart) , V. nigrifrons (Macquart) . Africa South of the Sahara: 43 species. Aldabra: 1 species; V. aldabrae Greathead. Cape Verde Islands: 2 species; V. bravae Bezzi , V. phaeotaenia Bezzi. Socotra: 1 species; V. dioscoridae Greathead. Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands: 1 species; V. unifasciata Macquart.