Pyrellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

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 Pyrellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Twelve species of the genus are known from the Afrotropical Region (Pont 1980). Couri et al. (2006) described a new species from Madagascar. See Couri et al. (2006) for generic diagnosis. Zielke (1971 c) revised the Afrotropical species. Only Pyrellia scintillans (Bigot, 1888) (Paterson 1960: 400, Anabib (Orupembe), 100 miles W of Ohopoho) is recorded from Namibia. Pyrellia spinthera (Bigot, 1878) and P. natalensis Paterson, 1958 represent new records.