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Bächli & Weinberg talk about "Machimus-Komplex", and from my knowledge Machimus and Tolmerus genera are not differentiated as genuses themselves using macroscopic morphology, but are simply identified in the same complex as species. Same thing happens to Eutolmus. So the thing is really hard. It's not like I call a red mountain-bike with blue wheels "Machimus ruber", and a a black BMX bike with blue wheels "Tolmerus niger", ignoring if these two are different bikes "genera" as first step; these species share much more in their morphology than those 2 bikes. I guess that if there will be effective studies about asilids there will be big changes in taxonomy and strong revisions... I wonder if this day will ever come :)