Marleyimyia

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

Marleyimyia
Female M. xylocopae
Female M. goliath
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Bombyliidae
Genus: Marleyimyia
Hesse, 1956
Type species
Marleyimyia natalensis
Hesse, 1956

References
  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. 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. 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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