Oriental species of clusiid flies (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiinae)
Author
Sasakawa, Mitsuhiro
text
Zootaxa
2011
3038
1
28
journal article
46304
10.5281/zenodo.205904
62376e09-f30b-4fb0-a635-8f8f43e008fd
1175-5326
205904
Genus
Heteromeringia
Czerny
Heteromeringia
Czerny, 1903
: 72
.
Type
species,
Heteroneura nigrimana
Loew, 1864
, fixed by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
Pedicel with obtuse outer triangular projection and no inner projection; arista minutely pubescent to shortly plumose; prsc absent; lsc one or two; crossvein bm-cu complete, M1 ratio 4.0–8.5, ultimate section of CuA1 slightly shorter than penultimate section; tibiae without pd; surstylus narrow, usually with several spinules on inner tip; cerci separated or united; basiphallus at least partially coiled; hypophallus and paraphallus varying considerably in shape or undeveloped. Males of the
nitida
-group of
Lonsdale and
Marshall
(2007a)
usually have a small, white or yellowish disc on the anepisternum before the posteroventral mesopleural suture (present in the Oriental
H
.
abatanensis
sp. nov.
,
H. didyma
Sasakawa, 1966
,
H. helicina
Sasakawa, 1966
,
H. melaena
Sasakawa, 1966
,
H. nitobei
Sasakawa, 1966
,
H. paraphalloides
sp. nov.
,
H. pectinata
sp. nov.
(female too), and
H
.
steyskali
Sasakawa, 1966
, but absent in
H. melanoprotoma
sp. nov.
.
Remarks.
This genus is widely distributed in tropical and warm-temperate areas of the world, with 16 species hitherto known from the Oriental region (
Czerny 1926
;
Frey 1928
,
1960
;
Sasakawa 1966
,
1993
). A key to the Oriental and Pacific species of this genus was given by
Sasakawa (1966)
.