Dolichocephala Macquart of Thailand (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae)
Author
Sinclair, Bradley J.
Author
Plant, Adrian R.
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-30
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4358.3.9
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Dolichocephala
Macquart
Dolichocephala
Macquart, 1823
: 147
. Type-species,
D. maculata
Macquart
(=
Tachydromia irrorata
Fallén
[as “
Hemerodromyia irrorata
”]), by monotypy.
Ardoptera
Macquart, 1828
: 105
. Type-species,
Tachydromia irrorata
Fallén
, by monotypy.
Leptosceles
Haliday, 1833
: 160
. Type-species,
L. guttata
Haliday
(original designation).
Lamposoma
Becker, 1889
: 338
. Type-species,
L. cavaticum
Becker
(monotypy).
Fur
Garrett Jones, 1940
: 294
. Type-species,
F. fugitivus
Garrett Jones
(original designation).
Obstinocephala
Garrett Jones, 1940
: 296
. Type-species,
O. tali
Garrett Jones
(original designation).
Recognition.
Dolichocephala
is distinguished from all other clinocerine genera by the following combination of characters: position of attachment of head high on occiput, wings usually white spotted, and male terminalia often with an extension of the subepandrial sclerite beyond base of clasping cercus.
Description.
See
Collin (1961)
and
Sinclair (1995)
for full description of the genus and the latter for a key to genera of
Clinocerinae
.