Eurycarenus Bezzi

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 : 157-158

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scientific name

Eurycarenus Bezzi
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Eurycarenus Loew, 1860 a: 83 [1860 b: 258; 1860 c: 186]. Type species: Bombylius laticeps Loew, 1852 , by monotypy. Comments: A very distinctive genus, at once recognised by the pattern of black, white and yellow vestiture, numerous black bristles, and broad head with indented hind margins of the eyes.

Keys: Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924); southern Africa, Hesse (1938); West Africa, Bowden (1964).

Distribution: Afrotropical and India. Africa South of the Sahara: 14 species; India: Eurycarenus erectus (Brunetti) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

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