Three new genera of Oriental scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae)
Author
DISNEY, R. Henry L.
text
Fragmenta Faunistica
2015
58
2
71
77
http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/00159301ff2015.58.2.071
journal article
20496
10.3161/00159301FF2015.58.2.071
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Tendcornphora
gen. nov.
Diagnosis
. Frons without bristles or median furrow, postpedicels greatly elongated with a small apical arista, palps and proboscis small, scutellum almost as large as scutum, mesopleuron bare and without a median furrow, hypopygium unusually small, mid tibia without pre-apical bristles, hind tibia without a dorsal hair palsade but with a row of posterodorsal long bristles, costal index less than 0.25, vein 3 unforked. In the key to males (
Disney 1994
) it readily runs to couplet 15, where lead 1 runs on to two genera that are clearly different. Lead 2 takes one to couplet 35, lead 1 to
Leptilla
Borgmeier 1963
. However, although its costa is also exceptionally short, its postpedicel is broad basally before it starts to taper before this distal portion which has long hairs, its palp is 4 times as long as its breadth, the frons has bristles and its hypopygium is clearly different.
Figs 1–8.
Hippaphora viklundi
sp. nov.
female. 1 – dorsal view; 2 – dorsal view of head; 3 – ventral view of head; 4 – postpedicel; 5 – eye; 6 – wing plus haltere (h); 7 – hairs of dorsal face of abdomen; 8 – hind femora.
Figs 9–18.
Obscurcaudaphora maculafemoralis
sp. nov.
male. 9 – postpedicels, palps and proboscis; 10 – frons; 11–13 – hypopygium: 11 – left face; 12 – right face; 13 – left face of sternite 10 (x); 14–15 – anterior and posterior face of front basitarsus; 16 – front leg; 17 – hind femur and tibia; 18 – wing.
Etymology
. Named after the long drawn out (stretched) postpedicels of the male antennae.