Atrichochira Hesse, 1956

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 : 194-195

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scientific name

Atrichochira Hesse
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Atrichochira Hesse, 1956: 911 . Type species: Exoprosopa pediformis Bezzi, 1921 , by original designation. Comments: The male and female genitalia are very similar to those of Micomitra

spp., but quite distinct from other African Exoprosopini. The two form a well supported clade along with the Australian genus Pseudopenthes Roberts ( Lambkin 2001) .

Distribution: Afrotropical: 2 species; Atrichochira inermis (Bezzi) ( Malawi) , A. pediformis (Bezzi) ( Burundi, Malawi, KwaZulu-Natal). A further undescribed species from Madagascar has been seen by DJG.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

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