First records of Tachydromia Meigen and Tachypeza Meigen (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Viet Nam, with descriptions of four new species
Author
Grootaert, Patrick
Author
Shamshev, Igor
text
Zootaxa
2009
2249
33
43
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190763
f20c4112-5557-4d2b-92a1-225718821052
1175-5326
190763
Tachydromia
Meigen, 1803
The species of the genus
Tachydromia
(=
Sicus
Latreille, 1796
;
Sicodus
Rafinesque, 1815
;
Coryneta
Meigen, 1800
;
Danistes
Gistl, 1848
;
Phoneutisca
Loew, 1863
;
Tachista
Loew, 1864
) are small to medium-sized (1.0 to
3.5 mm
), largely shining, ant-like flies with slender thorax, large postpronotal lobes, reduced thoracic setation, usually narrow palpus, slender legs and brown banded, clouded or spotted wings. In the Oriental Region
Tachydromia
can be only compared with
Platypalpus
Macquart
and, especially, with
Tachypeza
Meigen
, from which they can be readily distinguished by wing venation, namely complete loss of cell cu
p
.