Minilimosina Roháček, 1983

Su, Lixin, Liu, Guangchun & Xu, Jie, 2015, A review of Minilimosina Roháček (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from China, Zootaxa 4007 (1), pp. 1-28 : 3

Genus Minilimosina Roháček, 1983

Type species. Limosina fungicola Haliday, 1836 , original designation.— Roháček, 1983: 27–46 [diagnosis, key, revision of European species, illustr.]; Marshall, 1985: 2–60 [revision of New World species, key, phylogeny, illustr.]; Su, 2011: 67–77, 181–186 [diagnosis, key, revision of Chinese species, illustr.].

Generic diagnosis. 1 or 2 orbitals. Postvertical setae minute or absent. Interfrontals small, equal. One or 2 dorsocentral setae. Marginal setae of scutellum in two pairs. Mid tibia of both sexes without anteroventral seta below middle, sometimes males with a row of ventral setae; ventroapical seta well developed. Proximal half of mid tibia with an anterodorsal seta, distal half with an anterodorsal and a dorsal seta, usually with a distal posterodorsal seta, sometimes with a row of small posterodorsal setae. Mid femur with only basal seta or a row of short ventral setae. C extended slightly beyond R4+5. Sternite 5 of male usually with posteromedial comb-like spines or setulose process. Sternite 6 of male simple or with posterior lobes. Cercus with at least a long seta. Gonostylus variable. Female postabdomen long and telescoped; tergite 8 usually divided into 2 or 3 pigmented parts; sternite 8 variable; usually without additional sclerite between sternite 8 and sternite 10, sometimes present; cercus usually becoming narrow gradually to posterior part (sometimes abruptly narrow at middle to posterior part), with long sinuate dorsopreapical and apical setae.