Bombomyia Greathead Bombomyia Greathead, 1995:56. Type species: Bombylius discoideus Fabricius, 1794, by original designation. Comments: The genus Bombomyia was proposed for the Bombylius analis (= discoideus) group of Bezzi (1924), Hesse’s (1938) Group 1 Section 2. They are all large, broad-bodied flies with brightly coloured hair, and bear some resemblance to bees of the genera Bombus and Anthophora. Keys: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 – 7 in key to Bombylius spp.); Afrotropical, Paramonov (1955 as Bombylius discoideus group); Eritrea /northern Ethiopia, Greathead (1967 in key to Bombylius spp.); southern Africa, Hesse (1938 as Bombylius Group 1, Section 2). Distribution: Africa, southern Palaearctic, India. North Africa: 2 species; Bombomyia sticticus (Boisduval), B. discoideus (Fabricius) (one of the most widespread Bombyliidae, found from South Africa to Southern Europe and the Caucasus). Africa South of the Sahara: 18 species.

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 154, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975