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Lyneborg, 1978: 75- 
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: 319 [catalogue]), (1989: 22 [catalogue]); 
<bibRefCitation author="Majer, JM" editor="Papp, L" journalOrPublisher="Vol. 2. Nematocera and Lower Brachycera. Science Herald, Budapest" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="519 - 529" refId="B36" refString="Majer, JM, 1997. Family Therevidae. In: Papp, L, Darvas, B, Eds., Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera (with special reference to flies of economic importance). Vol. 2. Nematocera and Lower Brachycera. Science Herald, Budapest: 519 - 529" title="Family Therevidae." volumeTitle="Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera (with special reference to flies of economic importance)." year="1997">Majer (1997</bibRefCitation>
: 527 [key]); 
<bibRefCitation author="Hauser, M" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" refId="B9" refString="Hauser, M, Winterton, SL, Kirk-Spriggs, AH, Holston, KC, 2017. 49. Therevidae (Stiletto Flies). In: Kirk-Spriggs AH, Sinclair BJ (Eds) Manual of Afrotropical Diptera. Vol. 2. Nematocerous Diptera and lower Brachycera. Suricata (5), SANBI Graphics &amp; Editing, Pretoria, [i-xii +] 427-1361." title="49. Therevidae (Stiletto Flies). In: Kirk-Spriggs AH, Sinclair BJ (Eds) Manual of Afrotropical Diptera. Vol. 2. Nematocerous Diptera and lower Brachycera. Suricata (5), SANBI Graphics &amp; Editing, Pretoria, [i-xii +] 427 - 1361." year="2017">Hauser et al. (2017</bibRefCitation>
: 1200 [key, synopsis]). Type species: 
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Becker, 1902: 35.
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, 1912b: 138, 
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<bibRefCitation author="Lyneborg, L" journalOrPublisher="Entomology" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="189 - 346" refId="B31" refString="Lyneborg, L, 1976. A revision of the therevine stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 33 (3): 189 - 346" title="A revision of the therevine stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)." volume="33" year="1976">Lyneborg (1976</bibRefCitation>
: 291), 
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: 276). Type species: 
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Becker, 1902: 35 [incorrect type species designation by 
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].
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Extensive erect, white setae on head, body and legs; female frons wide, inner eye margins subparallel to slightly divergent; parafacial setae absent; hind coxal knob relatively minute or absent; elongate macrosetae on tibia and tarsi; series of anteroventral macrosetae on hind femur; wing opaque white with brown markings; male distiphallus narrow, short.</paragraph>
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Small to medium-sized flies extensively covered with erect, elongate pile. Head length and height subequal; frons flat, grey pubescent with pair of large matte black pubescent spots in female (rarely in male); vertex sunken (especially in female); inner margins of female eyes subparallel; gena rounded; male frons width variable, contiguous below anterior ocellus to wider than ocellar tubercle; frons width strongly sexually dimorphic; parafacial without setae; face flat; occiput pubescence dull silver to grey-brown, postocular ridge and occiput in both sexes with macrosetae few in number, single row or irregularly arranged; antenna shorter than to subequal to head length, positioned on lower half of head and directed anteriorly; flagellum shape variable, cylindrical (slightly tapered distally), elliptical or conical, length shorter than or subequal to combined scape and pedicel length, style apical; scape short, less than 3 
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pedicel length, cylindrical, noticeably thicker than pedicel and base of flagellum; palpus slender or crassate, mouthparts short. Thorax with central depression of prosternum setose; cervical sclerite lacking macroseta; pleuron with silver pubescence admixed with erect, filiform and lanceolate setae; metanepisternum with postspiracular setae present; metakatepisternum setae absent; scutum covered with lanceolate and filiform adpressed setae, often of variable length and white; scutal chaetotaxy (pairs of macrosetae): notopleural, 3-5; supra alar, 1- 2; post alar, 1; dorsocentral 0-6; scutellar, 2; posterior surfaces of mid- and hind coxae setose, hind coxal knob absent or reduced in size; all legs approximately equal length; fore and mid-femoral anteroventral (av) macrosetae present or absent, hind femur with anteroventral (av) setae as series along segment, posteroventral (pv) macrosetae present or absent; femoral vestiture as filiform setae admixed with adpressed, lanceolate and scale-like setae; tibial macrosetae elongate; claws relatively small; wing cell m3 open or closed; wing white opaque with variable mottled pattern; vein R1 with setae absent (rarely single seta present); wing membrane densely covered with microtrichia. Abdomen shape relatively short or elongate, slightly narrowed along length. Male terminalia with gonocoxites separate medially, posteromedial margins proximal; inner gonocoxal process (igp) present, articulated; posterior outer gonocoxal process (ogp) barely evident; ventral lobe elongate, half the length of gonostylus; phallus with dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath broad, covering aedeagus dorsally or quadrangular, dorsal apodeme separate from gonocoxites, distiphallus narrow, short and directed ventrally, ventral apodeme as single lobe, narrow. Female terminalia with acanthophorite setae present as two sets (A1 and A2), A1 enlarged and elongate; sternite 8 emarginate posteromedially; tergite 8 elongate with anteromedial process; spermathecal sac as single round lobe, two round spermathecae.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Included species.</paragraph>
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(Lyneborg, 1976), 
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(Zaitzev, 1971a), 
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sp. nov., 
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(Wiedemann, 1828), 
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sp. nov.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
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was described by 
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as a clarification of the confused taxonomic concept of the genus 
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, 1912b, itself being a heterogeneous composite of species now placed in 
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and 
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- the latter of which 
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is arguably a synonym (see 
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, 
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). 
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described 
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with five Palaearctic species: 
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, 1912b; 
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, 1912b; 
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(Macquart, 1848); 
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(Becker, 1902) and 
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, 1912b. 
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noted that the essential distinction between 
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and 
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by 
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(1912b)
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was that the male eyes are widely separated. 
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(1929
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, 
<bibRefCitation author="Kroeber, O" editor="Dahl, M" journalOrPublisher="Vol. 26 (5). Gustav Fischer, Jena" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="100 - 122" refId="B28" refString="Kroeber, O, 1932. Familie Therevidae (Stilettfliegen). In: Dahl, M, Bishoff, H, Eds., Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Vol. 26(5). Gustav Fischer, Jena: 100 - 122" title="Familie Therevidae (Stilettfliegen)." volumeTitle="Die Tierwelt Deutschlands." year="1932">1932</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Kroeber, O" journalOrPublisher="Acta Instituti et Musei Zoologici Universitatis Atheniensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="269 - 321" refId="B29" refString="Kroeber, O, 1937. Katalog der palaearktischen Thereviden, nebst Tabellen und Zusaetzen sowie Neubeschreibungen. Acta Instituti et Musei Zoologici Universitatis Atheniensis 1: 269 - 321" title="Katalog der palaearktischen Thereviden, nebst Tabellen und Zusaetzen sowie Neubeschreibungen." volume="1" year="1937">1937</bibRefCitation>
) subsequently identified multiple synonyms or novel combinations, as well as including 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krober" authorityYear="1912" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a subgenus of 
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Thereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kröber">Kroeber</normalizedToken>
, 1932). In a catalogue of Palaearctic 
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Therevidae</taxonomicName>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Kroeber, O" journalOrPublisher="Acta Instituti et Musei Zoologici Universitatis Atheniensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="269 - 321" refId="B29" refString="Kroeber, O, 1937. Katalog der palaearktischen Thereviden, nebst Tabellen und Zusaetzen sowie Neubeschreibungen. Acta Instituti et Musei Zoologici Universitatis Atheniensis 1: 269 - 321" title="Katalog der palaearktischen Thereviden, nebst Tabellen und Zusaetzen sowie Neubeschreibungen." volume="1" year="1937">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kröber">Kroeber</normalizedToken>
(1937)
</bibRefCitation>
designated 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. nitidifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="nitidifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. nitidifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the type species of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krober" authorityYear="1912" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In his revision of the Afrotropical 
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Therevidae</taxonomicName>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Lyneborg, L" journalOrPublisher="Entomology" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="189 - 346" refId="B31" refString="Lyneborg, L, 1976. A revision of the therevine stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 33 (3): 189 - 346" title="A revision of the therevine stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)." volume="33" year="1976">Lyneborg (1976)</bibRefCitation>
overlooked this type species designation and incorrectly designated 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Becker, 1902) as the type species of the genus. Therein, 
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. frontata" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="frontata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. frontata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. nitidifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="nitidifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. nitidifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were moved to 
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Thereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. latifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="latifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. latifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
implied as a 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">nomen dubium</emphasis>
, while 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krober" authorityYear="1912" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was more narrowly circumscribed around 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
along with the newly-described 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. arenaria" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="arenaria">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. arenaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. 
<bibRefCitation author="Lyneborg, L" journalOrPublisher="Entomology" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="189 - 346" refId="B31" refString="Lyneborg, L, 1976. A revision of the therevine stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 33 (3): 189 - 346" title="A revision of the therevine stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)." volume="33" year="1976">Lyneborg (1976)</bibRefCitation>
also synonymised 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. angustifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="angustifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Wiedemann" baseAuthorityYear="1828" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Thereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thereva macularis" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thereva macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Wiedemann, 1828 was moved to 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krober" authorityYear="1912" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Recognising his previously incorrect type species designation for 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krober" authorityYear="1912" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" author="Lyneborg, L" journalOrPublisher="Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="75 - 76" refId="B32" refString="Lyneborg, L, 1978. Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions. Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution 9 (1): 75 - 76, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" title="Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions." url="https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" volume="9" year="1978">Lyneborg (1978)</bibRefCitation>
synonymised 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krober" authorityYear="1912" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">sensu</emphasis>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kröber">Kroeber</normalizedToken>
, 1937) with 
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Thereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and transferred 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. arenaria" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="arenaria">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. arenaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to a new genus 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1978" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(again based on the type species as 
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) along with a species described previously in 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Frey" authorityYear="1921" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Aristothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aristothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Aristothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName lsidName="A. kozlovi" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="kozlovi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">A. kozlovi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Zaitzev, 1971a).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1978" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Frey" authorityYear="1921" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Aristothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aristothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Aristothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Seguy" authorityYear="1935" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acantothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acantothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acantothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
form a closely related group of specialised genera associated with sandy habitats, especially dunes, that is part of a larger clade also comprising the species-rich and widely distributed genera 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1976" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Irwiniella" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Irwiniella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Irwiniella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Irwin &amp; Lyneborg" authorityYear="1981" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acrosathe" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acrosathe" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acrosathe</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see 
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1071/IS06005" author="Holston, KC" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Systematics" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="279 - 296" refId="B13" refString="Holston, KC, Irwin, ME, Wiegmann, BM, 2007. Monophyly and phylogenetic relationships of Thereva and therevine genus-groups (Insecta: Diptera: Therevidae) based on EF-1α, 28S rDNA and mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences. Invertebrate Systematics 21 (3): 279 - 296, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/IS06005" title="Monophyly and phylogenetic relationships of Thereva and therevine genus-groups (Insecta: Diptera: Therevidae) based on EF- 1 α, 28 S rDNA and mitochondrial 16 S rDNA sequences." url="https://doi.org/10.1071/IS06005" volume="21" year="2007">Holston et al. 2007</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2155.1.3" author="Holston, KC" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="28 - 36" refId="B11" refString="Holston, KC, 2009. A new species of Acantothereva Seguy, 1935, from Tunisia (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae), taxonomic consequences and phylogenetic implications. Zootaxa 2155 (1): 28 - 36, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2155.1.3" title="A new species of Acantothereva Seguy, 1935, from Tunisia (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae), taxonomic consequences and phylogenetic implications." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2155.1.3" volume="2155" year="2009">Holston 2009</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12147" author="Winterton, SL" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Entomology" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="144 - 161" refId="B44" refString="Winterton, SL, Hardy, NB, Gaimari, SD, Hauser, M, Hill, HN, Holston, KC, Irwin, ME, Lambkin, CL, Metz, MA, Turco, F, Webb, DW, Yang, L, Yeates, DK, Wiegmann, BM, 2016. The phylogeny of stiletto flies (Diptera: Therevidae). Systematic Entomology 41 (1): 144 - 161, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12147" title="The phylogeny of stiletto flies (Diptera: Therevidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12147" volume="41" year="2016">Winterton et al. 2016</bibRefCitation>
). 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1978" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is differentiated from other therevine genera by the presence of paired dark maculae on a wide female frons (also in the male of 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. londti" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="londti">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. londti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov.), parafacial setae absent (present in 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Irwin &amp; Lyneborg" authorityYear="1981" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acrosathe" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acrosathe" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acrosathe</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Seguy" authorityYear="1935" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acantothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acantothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acantothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, variable in 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Frey" authorityYear="1921" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Aristothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aristothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Aristothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and a distiphallus that is narrow and curved ventrally (bulbous in 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Seguy" authorityYear="1935" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acantothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acantothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acantothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; ornately spinose in 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Frey" authorityYear="1921" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Aristothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aristothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Aristothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Other features of this genus variably shared with 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Seguy" authorityYear="1935" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acantothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acantothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acantothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Frey" authorityYear="1921" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Aristothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aristothereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Aristothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
include a wide, sunken vertex (especially in females), opaque white wings with dark maculation, reduced hind coxal knob, elongate tibial macrosetae and extensive white pile on the head and body frequently admixed with white scale-like setae. Paired matte-black pubescent maculae on the female frons are present in all species of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1978" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but are also found in some species of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Irwin &amp; Lyneborg" authorityYear="1981" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acrosathe" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acrosathe" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acrosathe</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(for example, notably 
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Osten Sacken" baseAuthorityYear="1877" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Acrosathe" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acrosathe vialis" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vialis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Acrosathe vialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Osten Sacken, 1877), suggestive also of the close relationship of these genera.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1978" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is widely distributed throughout the Palaearctic Region and disparately in southern Africa. The most eastern species, 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. kozlovi" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="kozlovi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. kozlovi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, is recorded from China and Uzbekistan. In the Mediterranean Region, 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is widely distributed throughout northern Africa from Israel to Mauritania; the apparently closely related and distinctively coloured 
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. maroccanus" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="maroccanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. maroccanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. is known only from Morocco.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="109" type="key to species of neotherevella">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
Key to species of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1978" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Macrosetae on head, thorax and legs black; matte-black pubescent spots on female frons admixed with erect black setae (southern Africa)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">2</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Macrosetae on head, thorax and legs pale yellow to white, barely distinguishable from extensive white pile; matte-black pubescent spots on female frons without setae (northern Africa to Mongolia)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">3</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">2</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Wing cell m3 open; palpi crassate; all femora with ventral macrosetae; male eyes separated by distance greater than width of ocellar tubercle; male frons with two matte- black spots admixed with elongate, erect setae (South Africa)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Winterton &amp; Irwin &amp; Mortelmans" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella londti" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="londti">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella londti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov
</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Wing cell m3 closed; palpi slender; only hind femur with ventral macrosetae; male eyes almost contiguous below anterior ocellus; male frons lacking matte-black spots (Namibia)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Lyneborg" baseAuthorityYear="1976" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella arenaria" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arenaria">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella arenaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Lyneborg)
</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">3</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Wing cell m3 open; male eyes separated by distance greater than width of ocellar tubercle (China, Uzbekistan)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Zaitzev" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella kozlovi" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kozlovi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella kozlovi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Zaitzev)
</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Wing cell m3 closed; male eyes separated by distance less than width of ocellar tubercle (northern Africa, Middle East)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">4</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">4</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Male eyes contiguous below anterior ocellus; male covered with extensive yellow pile on scutum, dorsal portion of occiput and dorsally on abdomen, white pile on pleuron lower half of head and laterally on abdomen; flagellum narrow (Morocco) (female unknown)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Winterton &amp; Irwin &amp; Mortelmans" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella maroccanus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maroccanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella maroccanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov.
</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">Male eyes separated at narrowest point by width subequal to width of ocellar tubercle; uniform white pile on head, thorax and abdomen; flagellum conical, tapered (Mauritania to Israel, Sudan)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rowspan="1">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Wiedemann" baseAuthorityYear="1828" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella macularis" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Wiedemann)
</emphasis>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>