TROPIDOMYIINI ZIMINA, 1960

Gibson, Joel F. & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2013, Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of all genera of Conopidae (Diptera) based on morphological data, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167 (1), pp. 43-81 : 66

TROPIDOMYIINI ZIMINA, 1960

Type genus Tropidomyia Williston, 1888: 11 . Included genera: Physoconops Szilady, 1926: 588 , Schedophysoconops Gibson gen. nov., Tropidomyia . Uncontroverted morphological autapomorphies: none. Members of Tropidomyiini are characterized by the presence of lateral ocelli (3); this character state is present in many other conopid taxa, but it represents an autapomophic character reversal in Tropidomyiini .

Gibson et al. (2012) also recover a monophyletic Tropidomyiini using molecular and morphological analysis and including only representatives of Physoconops . Zimina (1960) describes the tribe Tropidomyiini , with the following characteristics: facial fovea absent; basisternum with anterolateral extensions; arista two-segmented; vein R 1 not ending near end of R 2+3. Hennig (1966) suggests that the absence of facial fovea is a secondary loss in Tropidomyia . In the present analysis, reduction of the facial fovea and facial ridge (20, 24) along with a strongly developed facial carina (23) are apomorphies of Tropidomyia , not Tropidomyiini (s.l.). The condition of the basisternum, arista, and wing veins in Tropidomyiini is plesiomorphic to the Conopinae .

While usually placed within its own tribe, Tropidomyia has been placed in Physocephalini by some authors. Members of Tropidomyiini can be distinguished from Physocephalini by the presence of lateral ocelli, an ocellar tubercle, a prominent row of setae on the mesofemur, and setae or bristles on the ventral half of the proepisternum.

Species examined – Physoconops (Aconops) antennatus ; Physoconops (Aconops) costatus ; Physoconops (Aureoconops) aureolus ; Physoconops (Jelte) neotropicum comb. nov. ( Jelte neotropica ); Physoconops (Kroeberoconops) argentinus ; Physoconops (Kroeberoconops) hermanni ; Physoconops (Kroeberoconops) rufipennis ; Physoconops (Pachyconops) brachyrhynchus ; Physoconops (Pachyconops) bulbirostris ; Physoconops (Pachyconops) guianicus ; Physoconops (Physoconops) discalis ; Physoconops (Physoconops) fronto ; Physoconops (Physoconops) obscuripennis ; Physoconops (Shannonoconops) apicalis ; Schedophysoconops notatifrons comb. nov. ( Physoconops ); Tropidomyia alexanderi ; Tropidomyia aureifacies ; Tropidomyia bimaculata ; Tropidomyia ornata ; Tropidomyia sp.