Parisus Walker Parisus Walker, 1852: 196. Type species: Parisus paterculus Walker, 1852, by monotypy. Comments: The genus Parisus Walker was revived by Greathead (1995) for the majority of species in the Bombylius mundus group of Bezzi, Group 2 of Hesse (1938 1961). It is predominantly a southern African genus of species with pale bristles on the legs and mainly pale vestiture. Key: Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924 as Bombylius mundus group); Southern Africa, Hesse (1938 as Bombylius Group 2). Distribution: Africa and south-western Asia. Africa South of the Sahara: 45 species confined to southern Africa: Eastern Africa: 2 species; Parisus luteipennis (Bezzi) and P. pangoniiformis Greathead.

Published as part of Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), pp. 105-224 in African Invertebrates 42 (1820) on page 159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975