Neomyia Walker, 1859

Couri, Márcia Souto, de Carvalho, Claudio J. B. & Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Taxonomy of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Namibia: a key to genera, diagnoses, new records and description of a new species, African Invertebrates 53 (1), pp. 47-47 : 63

Genus Neomyia Walker, 1859

Forty-three species of the genus are recorded from the Afrotropical Region (Pont 1980), only one is recorded from Namibia: N. splendida (Adams, 1905) ( Bezzi 1908: 191, Kubub and Aar, as Pyrellia boersiana (Bigot, 1877) ; Zielke 1971 a: 175, Otjiwarongo, Farm Abechaus). For generic diagnoses see Couri et al. (2006), Emden (1939) and Zielke (1971 c). Neomyia splendida was found among the material examined here.