Taxonomic studies on Palaearctic and Oriental Eudorylini (Diptera: Pipunculidae), with the description of three new species Author Kehlmaier, Christian text Zootaxa 2005 2005-08-08 1030 1 1 48 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1030.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.1030.1.1 1175­5334 5050289 573150F2-200A-4551-8A09-4C8FA6E89564 Genus Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001 Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001 : in Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 435 . Type species: Pipunculus helluo Perkins, 1905 ; by original designation. The genus Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001 was only recently erected as a result of a phylogenetic study on the world Eudorylini ( Skevington & Yeates 2001 ) . Some of the key characters of this genus are an enlarged and subshining syntergosternite 8, which bears only a small membranous area or none at all, a normally enlarged ejaculatory apodeme and a considerably deflected hypandrium.