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species,
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, described below. Monotypic.
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exhibits most of the characters diagnostic of Amediini, notably 14 flagellomeres with simply setiform translucent sensilla and without crenulate whorls of sensory hairs, the costa lacking a break near the apex of the wing, and the gonocoxal ventral bridge largely reduced (
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). Unlike other Amediini, which lack both branches of the medial vein,
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possesses the posterior branch (M
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); and unlike the condition in other
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but
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, it enters the basal transverse vein (bm-m+m-cu,
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), rather than fading out basally or entering CuA (
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: fig. 15). A condition unique to
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, and thus rated here as another generic character of
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, is that the head is retracted completely beneath the anterior portion of the scutum, a position facilitated through modifications of certain thoracic sclerites, such as the inward-curved, slightly sickle-shaped pronotum (
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).
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The feminine name is composed of
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, the Bemba word for
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species
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, and -
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, the Greek word for fly, thus meaning miombo fly.
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widens the range of vein patterns known in Amediini,
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and
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. Moreover, the M 4 entering the basal transverse vein is a character of phylogenetic interest. The same trait is found in the relict cecidomyiid subfamily
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Catotrichinae (
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)
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and, outside
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, in the ancient Sciaroidea incertae sedis group of genera (sometimes also referred to as the
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group), where it is rated as plesiomorphous (
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). The reoccurrence of this condition in
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may be interpreted as an indicator of the sciaroid ancestry of
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and
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. Interesting to note in this context, the flagellar vestiture in
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, which is atypical of a cecidomyiid and different from that in other Amediini, resembles that found in
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, an extinct, Mesozoic family of Sciaroidea and sometimes believed to be closely related to
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(
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Grimaldi
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. 2003
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;
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, fig. 12.25).
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Grimaldi
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. (2003: 372)
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describe the flagellomeres of their new genus
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as “setulose” and “each of flagellomeres 18 with pair of tooth-like scales; scales on opposite sides of each flagellomere”. Although they emphasize that “these scales have no appearance of being sensilla” (
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Grimaldi
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2003: 372
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), the illustration presented (
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Grimaldi
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2003: 372
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) suggests otherwise: the putative flagellomeral scales of
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are in the same position, and of the same size and shape, as the translucent sensilla of
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(
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). Also, the fine basic vestiture on the flagellomeral nodes—referred to as setulae in
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and trichia in
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</taxonomicName>
—is similar in both genera.
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