Afrotropical flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). A new genus and species from Kenya, with a review of the melanostomine group of genera Author Thompson, F. Christian Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20013 - 7012, USA. E-mail: thompsonf @ si. edu Author Skevington, Jeffrey H. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada. E-mail: jhskevington @ gmail. com jhskevington@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2014 2014-08-06 3847 1 97 114 journal article 5343 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.1.5 1113230b-71a5-4505-b58f-2f9cbd5556f2 1175-5326 4928795 3578236B-8CE0-42D5-8BEB-68A84D137BCD Genus Tuberculanostoma Fluke Tuberculanostoma Fluke, 1943: 425 . Type , antennatum Fluke by original designation. Neotropical region only, high Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia (4 species, last revision Fluke (1943) . Another species, solitarium van Doesburg (1955: 50) , was described from the Karakorum mountains (Oriental region). Unfortunately, the species was based only on females and differs significantly from the Neotropical species in having a head with reduced eyes, enlarged gena and ventral occiput, very deep anterior tentorial pits and very broad facial stripes. Tuberculanostoma has a normal head (except for snout), with large eyes, small narrow gena and ventral occiput, shallow tentorial pits and narrow facial stripes. Unfortunately, without a male the description of a new genus for this strange Karakorum species would be premature.