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Comptosia

Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae

Taxonomy
Comptosia was named by Macquart (1840). It is extant.

It was assigned to Lomatiini by Evenhuis and Greathead (1999); and to Lomatiinae by Wedmann and Yeates (2008).

Species

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Comptosia Macquart
1909Megacosmus Cockerell p. 10
1992Megacosmus Carpenter
1999Comptosia Evenhuis and Greathead
2008Comptosia Wedmann and Yeates p. 233

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
familyBombyliidae()
subfamilyLomatiinae()
tribeLomatiini
genusComptosiaMacquart 1840

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Comptosia Macquart 1840
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Comptosia miranda Cockerell 1909
Comptosia pria Wedmann and Yeates 2008
Invalid names: Megacosmus Cockerell 1909 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available