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
Phylloclusia
Hendel
Phylloclusia
Hendel, 1913
: 78
.
Type
species,
Phylloclusia steleocera
Hendel, 1913
, fixed by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
This genus is characterized by a large, triangular first antennal flagellomere with a bluntly angled dorsal apex (rarely small and rounded), the arista flattened in the form of a willow-leaf (rarely slender), the presence of prs and prsc, and the absence of if, presutural dc, and dp. Other diagnostic characters are as follows: occiput with shallow notch just behind ocellar triangle; distinct microtrichiation on wing membrane; fore femur with several fb; S6 setose posteriorly (
Lonsdale and
Marshall
2007b
); male cerci (
Figs 1, 2
, C) united at their bases and connected with posteroventral corners of epandrium, bearing many long setae posteriorly; surstylus (
Figs 1, 2
, S) varying in shape among species, setulose; proctiger (
Fig. 2
, P) Y-shaped; epiphallus distinct, mesophallus with sclerites separated or fused at their bases, distiphallus tubular, paraphallus short and pointed apically.
Remarks.
Five Oriental species are known (
Hendel 1913
;
Sasakawa 1974
;
Lonsdale and
Marshall
2007b
), and two new species are described below.