Phantolabis Alexander, 1956

Pilipenko, Valentin E., 2021, The genus Phantolabis (Diptera: Limoniidae) new to the Palearctic: description of a new species and re-definition of the genus, European Journal of Taxonomy 746 (1), pp. 148-161 : 150

Genus Phantolabis Alexander, 1956

Type species

Erioptera lacustris Alexander, 1938 .

Diagnosis

Small (wing length not exceeding 5.0 mm), greyish dark brown species; antenna short, with 11–12 segments, apical flagellomere elongate, formed by fused distal segments. All legs with a short third tarsomere and tarsal claws inserted subapically. Mid and hind tarsi with shortened first and second segments, third tarsomere modified, with keel-like edge. Wings wide with wide anal angle, veins almost without microtrichia, veins R, CuA and A 1 thickened, arculus poorly visible, cell R 3 long, with short R 2+3+4, discal cell open, crossvein m-m absent. Hypopygium not inverted, gonocoxites massive, lobe of gonostylus well developed, with short flat teeth, clasper of gonostylus rod-like, short and inconspicuous. Interbase slender, curved, and needle-like, lateral processes of aedeagal sheath (= parameres) absent. Aedeagus long, straight, thin, divided apically into two or three rods.