Toxopyrgota Hendel, 1914

Korneyev, V. A., 2016, New Taxa And Synonymy In The Family Pyrgotidae (Diptera, Tephritoidea). I. Tribes Prodalmanniini And Toxopyrgotini, Vestnik Zoologii 50 (1), pp. 39-48 : 46

Genus Toxopyrgota Hendel, 1914

Type species: Toxopyrgota inclinata Hendel, 1914 (by original designation).

Toxopyrgota inclinata Hendel, 1914: 78 ; 1917: 34; Steyskal, 1972: 8; 1980: 562.

D i a g n o s i s. The genus can be distinguished from other pyrgotids by the combination of the tribal characters (see above) and the ocelli lacking (apomorphy, apparently lost independently from most other tribes of the Pyrgotinae ); body densely and long setulose, subshining, not microtrichose; frontal plates with 2–5 pairs or irregular setae; membrane of subcranial cavity between arms of subgenae non-sclerotized, forming no epistome; gena as high as eye, subocular sclerite not developed; mesonotum with full set of setae, and numerous additional dorsocentral setae; femora not swollen, without femoral organ or short spinulae, strongly elongated, long and densely setulose; and wing with bare vein R 4+5 and brownish-grey mottled pattern; abdomen with very wide sternites in both sexes; phallus with almost non-sclerotized glans.

R e m a r k s. This monotypic genus occurs only in the mountains of the Subsaharan Africa.