The subgenus mayria is distributed across the afrotropical region, but the present study focuses on the malagasy members of the subgenus only. The subgenus is endemic to madagascar where it occupies a broad range of habitats, from deciduous and dry forest to rainforest. This endemic malagasy bee clade further highlights the distinctiveness of the malagasy bee fauna and raises biogeographical questions about how, when, and why the malagasy biota became.
Thrixionellus is a subgenus of bristle flies in the family tachinidae endemic to madagascar. Mesnil (1950) erected parapales mesnil as a subgenus of the genus ctenophorocera brauer & bergenstamm, 1891, a junior synonym of pales robineau. Mesnil was a prolific taxonomist who published more than 90 articles on the tachinidae between the years 1936 and 1980 (o’hara 1996).
During the course of his long career he. The malagasy mayria initially contained just. The biodiversity heritage library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. A taxonomic review is provided of this subgenus,.