Abstract
The manuscript of Mario Bezzi describing new species of Afrotropical Bombylioidea from the Hungarian Museum is discovered and details on the species described therein are given. Twelve species-group names are newly synonymised: Ceratolaemus xanthogrammus Hesse (= Cephalodromia scutellaris, n. syn.); Geron michaili Zaitzev (= Geron albifacies Bezzi, n. syn.); Bombylius calviniensis Hesse, Bombylius imitator Hesse, Bombylius anomalus Hesse, Bombylius erroneus Bowden and Parisus neoanomalus Evenhuis and Greathead (all = Parisus fucatus (Bezzi), n. syns.); Crocidium karooanum Hesse (= Crocidium immaculatum Bezzi, n. syn.); Lomatia pleuralis Bezzi (= Notolomatia nigrescens (Ricardo), n. syn.), Exoprosopa nephroneura Hesse (= Heteralonia katonae (Bezzi), n. syn.); Epacmoides albifrons Hesse and Epacmoides albifrons var. pallidulus Hesse (both = Epacmoides biumbonatus (Bezzi), n. syns.). Nineteen lectotypes are designated for Bezzi species: Cyrtosia scutellaris (= Cephalodromia), Phthiria pubescens, Geron barbatus, Anastoechus spinifacies, Bombylius braunsi (= Australoechus capensis), Bombylius auricomus (= Bombylella), Bombylius phaeopteris, Bombylius fucatus (= Parisus), Pantostomus gibbiventris, Tomomyza barbatula, Tomomyza pallipes, Tomomyza pictipennis, Exoprosopa fuscescens, Exoprosopa contorta, Exoprosopa luteicosta, Exoprosopa fissicornis, Exoprosopa katonae (= Heteralonia), Litorrhynchus evanescens (= Litorhina), Plesiocera biumbonata (= Epacmoides). Full descriptions and/or translated and transcribed diagnoses are given for species whose types were destroyed and were previously only known from validation on few characters in keys.References
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