Marleyimyia

<i>Marleyimyia</i>

Marleyimyia

Genus of flies

Marleyimyia is a genus of bee fly. It was named by Albert John Hesse in 1956; the name is in honor of Harold Walter Bell-Marley.[1] As of 2015 it consists of three species:[2]

  • M. goliath (Oldroyd, 1951)[3] — Peninsular Malaysia
  • M. natalensis Hesse, 1956[1] — Southern Africa
  • M. xylocopae Marshall & Evenhuis, 2015[2] — Southern Africa

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References

  1. [1]
    Hesse, A. J. (1956). "A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. Part III". Annals of the South African Museum. 35: 521–524.
  2. [2]
    Marshall, Stephen A.; Evenhuis, Neal L. (2015). "New species without dead bodies: a case for photo-based descriptions, illustrated by a striking new species of Marleyimyia Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from South Africa". ZooKeys (525): 117–127. doi:10.3897/zookeys.525.6143. PMC 4607853. PMID 26487819.
  3. [3]
    Oldroyd, H. (1951). "A Giant Bombyliid (Diptera) Bred from the Pupa of a Cossid Moth". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B: Taxonomy. 20 (5–6): 49–50. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1951.tb01018.x.
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