Empidideicus Becker, 1907

Moghbeli, Sajjad, Fekrat, Lida & Gharali, Babak, 2020, Empidideicus jirofti sp. nov. (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Empidideicinae), a new microbombyliid from Kerman province, southern Iran, with a key to species of Empidideicus from Iran, Zootaxa 4722 (4), pp. 352-360 : 353

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Genus Empidideicus Becker

Empidideicus Becker, 1907: 97 . Type species: Empidideicus carthaginiensis Becker, 1907 , by monotypy.

Cyrtoides Engel, 1933: 102 (as Empidideicus subgenus). Type species: Empidideicus efflatouni Engel, 1933 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis: The genus Empidideicus differs from other Mythicomyiidae genera by the following combination of characters: R 2+3 absent ( Fig. 1b View FIGURE 1 ), first flagellomere subcylindrical, second flagellomere long, antennal stylus not reduced ( Fig. 1a View FIGURE 1 ), and spermathecal reservoir with an apical invagination ( Greathead & Evenhuis, 1997, 2001).