Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001

Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Marques, Dayse Willkenia A. & Rafael, José Albertino, 2024, Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001 (Pipunculidae, Tomosvaryellini) of Colombia, with description of three new species and a key to Neotropical males, European Journal of Taxonomy 932, pp. 138-157 : 141

Genus Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001

Dasydorylas Skevington in Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 435.

Type species Pipunculus eucalypti Perkins, 1905 (original designation).

Pipunculus – Banks 1915: 169 (partim). — Curran 1928: 43 (partim). — Hardy 1943: 83 (partim). — Aczél 1948: 28 (partim); 1952: 247 (partim). — Arnaud & Owen 1981 (Curran types) (partim).

Dorilas – Hardy 1943: 84, pl. 6, figs 36a–b (partim).

Dorilas (Eudorylas) – Hardy 1954: 21, figs 7a–b, 32, figs 14a–c (partim).

Eudorylas – Rafael 1991: 156, figs 12–16, 37; 159, figs 21–28, 39 (partim).

Dasydorylas – Rafael & Ale-Rocha 2004 : figs 33–37. — Földvári 2013: 23 . — Motamedinia et al. 2017 ; 2020.

Diagnosis (adapted from Skevington 2001)

Small to medium size (2.5–4.8 mm). Eyes holoptic in males, dichoptic in females. Postpedicel with acuminate apex. Notopleuron usually with dense tuft of long setae. Scutum with dorsocentral setae conspicuous. Femora with ventral ctenidia and row of long setae posterodorsally. Hind tibia with one or more erected anterior spines on median part, fore and mid tibiae with distinct apical spines. Tegula usually with a cluster of setae. Wing with pterostigma. Abdomen ovate with conspicuous scattered setae (rarely inconspicuous) ground color dark; tergites 2–4 usually with posterior margin brown, gray, or yellowish brown pruinose. Syntergosternite 8 with a membranous area. Apex of phallic guide with apex hook-shaped, sometimes with large spines. Ejaculatory apodeme parasol-shaped or funnel-shaped. Phallus thin and trifid (rarely bifid).