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IN a recent issue of the Bulletin of Entomological Research, Major E. E. Austen has a very interesting paper on the flies of the genus Thyridanthrax, which are parasitic on tsetse flies, and are the only Diptera known to be parasitic on Glossina. I thought at once of the species of Glossina fossil in the Miocene of Colorado, and of the numerous genera of Bombyliidæ also fossil in the same shales. These, or some of them, may well have been parasitic on Glossina, and may have had something to do with its extinction in America. It is interesting to note, however, that Thyridanthrax belongs to a series of Bombyliidæ little related to the fossil genera, and can have no connexion with them.
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COCKERELL, T. Dipterous Parasites of Tsetse Flies. Nature 124, 693 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124693d0
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