Buestanmyia, González, 2021

González, Christian R., 2021, Buestanmyia chiriboga gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) from the Ecuadorian Andes, Zootaxa 4949 (1), pp. 184-190 : 185

Buestanmyia gen. nov. González

Type species: Buestanmyia chiriboga sp. nov. González (here designated).

Diagnosis. Medium-sized (body length 10.0–11.0 mm). Eyes without bands, with very short and scarce ommatrichia. Frons wide and slightly divergent below (index 2.2). Basal callus subquadrate, narrower than frons, median dorsal projection reaching half the height of the frons. Ocellar triangle and ocelli absent. Subcallus with short hairs laterally. Scape 3.5x the length of the pedicel; scape and pedicel with strong and erect hairs; first flagellomere angulate dorsally, without tooth or spine, with four apical flagellomeres. Proboscis very short, less than the length of the head, thick, with extensively developed labellum. Maxillary palpus stout, with abundant and very long hairs, fusiform, not broad at base. Mesonotum only sparsely hairy. Scutellum with long hairs; laterally and on the disc. Coxae, femora, and tibiae with long hairs, remaining leg segments with short hairs. Wings slightly smoky, with clouds on the cells costal and subcostal, cell r 5 widely open; vein R 4 with a short appendix; cell cup with short appendix. Basicosta bare. Terminalia. Female. Cerci subovoid. Hypogynium (sternite 8) and hypoginal valve (gonapophysis) fused with distal border projecting and sinuous. Genital fork with narrow and straight base. Spermathecal ducts short. Male. Cerci darkly sclerotized acuminate apically tapers towards the apex, gonocoxite, gonostyli and aedeagus darkly sclerotized.

Etymology. Buestanmyia has been named is to honor of the Ecuadorian horsefly specialist Dr. Jaime Buestán for his contribution to the knowledge of the family in the Neotropical region.