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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae</paragraph>
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Genus
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Hesse, 1956: 521. Type species:
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Hesse, 1956, by original designation.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Remarks.</paragraph>
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Hesse, 1956 was originally described based on a single male specimen with vestigial mouthparts and bred from a log containing cossid larvae. The genus is currently known from only three specimens representing two described species from widely disjunct localities:
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(Oldroyd) from Peninsular Malaysia and
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Hesse from southern Africa. In proposing his new genus,
<bibRefCitation author="Hesse, AJ" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the South African Museum" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" pagination="1 - 972" title="A revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of southern Africa. Parts II &amp; III." volume="35" year="1956">Hesse (1956)</bibRefCitation>
distinguished
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from
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Bezzi, 1921 by the larger body, the head wider than the thorax, and the differently shaped, although reduced, proboscis (pointed apically in
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and short with a small fleshy labellum in
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). Hesse distinguished
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from
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Paramonov, 1931 by the same body and head features as above, but also the presence of a reduced proboscis (proboscis totally absent in
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).
<bibRefCitation author="Oldroyd, H" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society (B)" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" pagination="49 - 50" title="A giant bombyliid (Diptera) bred from the pupa of a cossid moth." url="10.1111/j.1365-3113.1951.tb01018.x" volume="20" year="1951">Oldroyd (1951)</bibRefCitation>
described his new Malaysian species as
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based on a single male and female bred from the pupa of a cossid moth and claimed it to be the largest in bulk of any bee fly he had seen.
<bibRefCitation author="Bowden, J" editor="Delfinado, MD" journalOrPublisher="Univ. Press of Hawaii, Honolulu" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" pagination="165 - 184" title="Family Bombyliidae." volumeTitle="A catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Volume II. Suborder Brachycera through Division Aschiza, Suborder Cyclorrhapha" year="1975">Bowden (1975)</bibRefCitation>
transferred
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to
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and
<bibRefCitation author="Bowden, J" editor="Werger, MJA" journalOrPublisher="W. Junk, The Hague" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" pagination="775 - 796" title="Diptera." url="10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0_25" volumeTitle="Biogeography and ecology of Southern Africa" year="1978">Bowden (1978)</bibRefCitation>
echoed
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(1951)
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presumption that the species in the genus had the appearance of a crepuscular or nocturnal habit. If this nocturnal habit is proven to be true, then the new species described below differs in having been seen during the day (photographed at two separate localities), but it has the same unusual antennal shape as found in the male and female of
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(a similar lanceolate shape but shorter and stouter is found only in one other bombyliid species, the Nearctic
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Johnson &amp; Maughan, and only in females of that species). The antennal shape in the new species described here is not found in the male holotype of the type species,
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, but it is found in the female of the undescribed species of
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from Nigeria mentioned by
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and may be a female-specific character for species of
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.
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