Eucelatoria Townsend, 1909

Inclan, Diego J. & Stireman, John O., 2014, A new species and synonymy of the Neotropical Eucelatoria Townsend and redescription of Myiodoriops Townsend, ZooKeys 464, pp. 63-97 : 66

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Tachinidae

Eucelatoria Townsend, 1909

Eucelatoria Townsend, 1909: 249. Type species: Tachina (Masicera) armigera Coquillett, 1889, by original designation.

Euptilodegeeria Townsend, 1931: 465. Type species: Hypostena obumbrata Wulp, 1890, by original designation. Syn. n.

Eucelatoria See Guimarães 1971, Wood 1985 and O’Hara and Wood 2004 for a full list of synonymies and selected references.

Remarks.

In the recognition of the genus Eucelatoria provided by Sabrosky (1981) and Wood (1985) the wing vein R4+5 is dorsally setose only at its base. The Eucelatoria obumbrata species group described here differs from these generic definitions because specimens in this group have the wing vein R4+5 dorsally setose from its base nearly to crossvein r-m. Although Wood (1985) already considered Machairomasicera carinata as belonging to Eucelatoria , and this species has the vein R4+5 dorsally setose, Wood did not include this variation in the generic description of Eucelatoria because his revision was restricted to Central America, and Myiodoriops carinata is known only from Ecuador. This trait appears to be a synapomorphy of the Eucelatoria obumbrata species group, clearly distinguishing it from other Eucelatoria species. The presence of sex patches on ventral abdominal tergites 4 and 5 of males also serves to unite this group, however similar sexual patches have been observed in other Eucelatoria species (Stireman and Z.K. Burington, pers. obs.).