Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera
Author
Londt, Jason G. H.
text
ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM
1994
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http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8360701
8360701
Trichoura
gen. n.
Type species:
Trichoura torynopoda
sp. n.
Description: Small, brown-yellow, silver pruinose stenopogonine asilids with the following combination of characters:
Head
(
Fig. 85
): clearly wider than high in anterior view. Antenna: scape slightly longer than pedicel, segment 3
ca.
1.5 times as long as scape and pedicel combined, style small, conical with terminal spine-like seta. Mystax shiny, white, confined to lower 1 of plane face (only ventral part somewhat protuberant); palpi small, 2-segmented.
Thorax:
postmetacoxal area membranous; anepimeral bristle absent; I pair scutellar macrosetae (a second pair, much smaller than the first, found only in holotype of
krugeri
).
Wing (
Fig. 86
):
ca.
3 mm
long, transparent, immaculate, uniform microtrichial cover, C extends around entire wing margin (but weakly along hind margin), cells m] and cup closed and stalked. Legs: pulvilli and empodia well developed.
Abdomen:
♂
terminalia unrotated;
♂
epandrium with long, silvery, prone setae masking shape (except in
proctomeces
);
hypandrium small or absent (fused basally with well-developed gonocoxites).
Etymology: Gr. f.
trichos
- hair +
oura
- tail: refers to setaceous epandrium.