New species and new records of Chloropinae from Singapore (Diptera: Chloropidae)
Author
Riccardi, Paula Raile
Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Author
Ang, Yuchen
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, 117377 Singapore.
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-05-27
5458
1
83
92
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5458.1.4
1175-5326
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Eutropha
Loew, 1866
Genus overview.
Close affinities with the tribe
Chloropsinini (
Riccardi &Amorim, 2020
)
. 23 valid species occurring in the eastern hemisphere and almost invariably recorded from coastal habitats. Larvae have been reared from seal carcasses (
Ismay
et al.
2021
;
Kirk-Spriggs 2007
). However, the feeding habits of most species are unknown. The diagnostic morphological features of
Eutropha
include ocellar triangle not reaching the frontal apex (
Fig. 5A
); gena wide with more than one row of pilosity; parafacial not visible; postpedicel short oval, scutum pilosity pale; wing hyaline or fumose; male terminalia without anal sclerites, surstylus short, with wide base and apex with spines, postgonite at most half-length of postgonite, pregonite bent ventrally at base (see
Ismay
et al.
2021
;
Riccardi & Amorim 2020
).