Heteropterna Skuse, 1888

Xu, Huachao, Cao, Jian, Zhou, Zuji, Wu, Hong & Huang, Zhiwei, 2007, First record of the tribe Keroplatini from China, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Keroplatidae), Zootaxa 1497, pp. 35-40 : 39

Heteropterna Skuse, 1888

This genus is represented by 25 species and occurs in most zoogeographic regions. Most of the species are known from the Australasian/Oceanian Regions and the Neotropical Region, and there are three species in the Oriental Region, and only one species recorded here is known from in the Palaearctic Region.

The genus is distinguished from other related genera by the following characters (Matile, 1990; Søli et al., 2000): antennae strongly compressed; A1 present; R4 ending in C; laterotergite bare, mediotergite with triangular membranous area at base.