Narcissomyia, Grimaldi, 2016

Grimaldi, David A., 2016, Diverse Orthorrhaphan Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera) In Amber From The Cretaceous Of Myanmar: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber, Part Vii David A. Grimaldi, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2016 (408), pp. 1-132 : 27

Narcissomyia , new genus

DIAGNOSIS: Antenna with 8 flagellomeres, tapered apicad, most longer than wide; eyes bare, holoptic in male; palp 2-segmented; no scutellar spines; tibial spurs 0-1-0, mesotibial spurs long, slender, apex slightly hooked; Abdominal tergites 2–6 each with deeply impressed transverse sulcus; thorax deep in lateral view; wing slender W/L 0.34, Rs branching from R slightly basal to level of CuA 2 (vs. apical to this), cell d long (L/ W 3.2 vs. ≤ 2.5 in almost all other stratiomyids); CuA 2 strongly arched; R 4 long, forking from R 4+5 at level of m 1 -m 2 crossvein. Male: gonostylus with 3 apical spines, gonocoxa with strongly curved basal-medial spine. Female terminalia not telescoping, cerci slender.

TYPE SPECIES: Narcissomyia bella , new species.

ETYMOLOGY: After the beautiful mythological youth of Greek mythology, Narcissus, in reference to the exquisite preservation of the holotype male, plus myia, Greek for “fly.”