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- ↑ Carles-Tolrá, Miguel (2009). "TWO NEW BOMBYLIID SPECIES FROM SPAIN (DIPTERA, BOMBYLIIDAE)" (PDF). Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (44): 63–66.
- ↑ El-Hawagry, Magdi Shaaban Ali; Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed Al (31 October 2016). "Parageron raydahensis, New Species and the First Record of Subfamily Usiinae (Bombyliidae: Diptera) from Saudi Arabia". Pakistan Journal of Zoology. 48 (5): 1307–1307.