CONOPINI LATREILLE, 1802

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 : 63-64

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00873.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10541358
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Type genus Conops Linnaeus, 1758: 604 . Genera included: Abrachyglossum Kröber, 1919: 142 , Conops , Leopoldius Rondani, 1843: 35 . Uncontroverted morphological autapomorphy: male abdominal tergites 3 and 4 broad and parallel-sided (104).

Previous classifications variously included members of Asiconopini , Caenoconopini, Physocephalini , Siniconopini, and Tropidomyiini within Conopini . See diagnoses of each of those respective tribes for means to distinguish them from Conopini . Zimina’s (1960) definition of Conopini includes the following key characteristics: facial foveae present; arista three-segmented; vein R 1 ending near the end of R 2+3; basisternum quadrangular. In the present analysis, each of these character states is plesiomorphic to Conopinae (s.l.). Smith & Peterson (1987) include no key characteristics of Conopini in their key to Nearctic genera, except that the key characteristics of Physocephala are absent.

Species examined – Abrachyglossum capitatum ; Conops flavipes ; Conops vesicularis ; Leopoldius coronatus ; Leopoldius punctatum comb. nov. ( Neobrachyglossum ); Leopoldius signatus .