Meomyia Evenhuis 1983
Creators: name: Li, Xuankun
name: Yeates, David K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Meomyia

description: Key to species of Meomyia Evenhuis   
 1. Body with yellowish and black hairs; wing membrane with distinct spots (Fig. 7d)....................................................................................................... Meomyia fasciculata (Macquart, 1840)   
- Body with white and black hairs; wing membrane without distinct spots (Figs 2d, 4d, 9d, 11d, 13d, 16d, 19d, 22d)........ 2  
2. Male fore tibia with hair tuft, with or without enlarged setae (Figs 2e, 4e, 22e)..................................... 3  
- Male fore tibia without hair tuft or enlarged setae............................................................ 5  
 3. Apical outer hair tuft on male fore tibia with only black hairs (Fig. 2e)............... Meomyia albiceps (Macquart, 1848)   
- Apical outer hair tuft on male fore tibia mostly black, but with a subapical white scale band (Figs 4e, 22e)............... 4  
 4. Male mid tibia without enlarged setae (Fig. 22f).................................... Meomyia vetusta (Walker, 1849)   
 - Male mid tibia with enlarged black setae on inner and outer face (Fig. 4f)........ Meomyia callynthrophora (Schiner, 1868)   
 5. Posterior margin of scutum with a black band, consisting of black hairs (Figs 19 a–i); upper clypeal margin and dorsolateral area of face admixed with some black hairs (Figs 19 g–h); wing membrane slightly infuscated, darker towards wing base, with some unconspicuous markings on base of  R 4 , apex of cell dm, base of crossvein m-cu, and apex of cell bm (Fig. 19d); male epiphallus short, not modified (Fig. 20c)................................................ Meomyia sericans (Macquart, 1850)   
- Posterior margin of scutum with or without black band, covered with yellowish hairs; face covered in white hairs, upper clypeal margin and dorsolateral area without black hairs; wing membrane hyaline, without markings (Figs 9d, 11d, 13d, 16d); male epiphallus bifid apically, branch slender and long (Figs 10c, 12c, 14c, 17c)........................................ 6  
 6. Posterior margin of abdominal tergite 3 with a narrow black band, consisting of scales, hairs and setae (Fig. 13b); posterior area of scutum with some black setae; fore tibia with subapical white scale band (Fig. 13e)....... Meomyia melanocincta sp. nov.   
- Posterior margin of abdominal tergite 3 without black band, tergite 3 covered in white or pale yellow hairs; posterior area of scutum without setae; fore tibia covered in black or brown scales, without subapical white scale band.................. 7  
 7. Antennal flagellum wide (Fig. 9c); posterior margin of scutellum with pale yellow setae; posterior margin of tergites 3–6 with pale yellow setae; antennal scape with long white hairs, admixed with a few long black hairs........................................................................................................ Meomyia hortorum sp. nov.   
- Antennal flagellum narrow (Figs 11c, 16c); posterior margin of scutellum with brownish yellow or black setae; posterior margin of tergites 3–6 with black setae; antennal scape with long black hairs on dorsal half, and long white hairs on ventral half 8  
 8. Legs mostly brown, except basal half of femora turning black; posterior margin of scutellum with black setae; lateral margin of male gonocoxite strongly curved subapically (Figs 17 a–b); male epiphallus with rounded dorsal branch (Fig. 17c).............................................................................. Meomyia penicillata (Macquart, 1850)   
 - Legs mostly yellow, except tarsi dark brown; posterior margin of scutellum with brownish yellow setae; lateral margin of male gonocoxite nearly straight (Figs 12 a–b); male epiphallus with acute dorsal branch (Fig. 12c)....... Meomyia kochae sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Li, Xuankun & Yeates, David K., 2020, Revision of the Australian bee fly genus Meomyia Evenhuis, 1983, with description of three new species (Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae, Bombyliini), pp. 201-243 in Zootaxa 4810 (2) on page 203, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3938074