Keilbachia flagria

Hippa, Heikki & Vilkamaa, Pekka, 2007, The flagria group of Keilbachia Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) in a biodiversity hot spot: nine new sympatric species from Kambaiti, Myanmar, Zootaxa 1556, pp. 31-50 : 32

The Keilbachia flagria group

Menzel and Mohrig (2000) divided Keilbachia into the K. nepalensis group and the K. sasakawai group, the former characterized by lacking the apical tooth on the gonostylus, the latter by possessing it. All the species known at that time had one curved mesial megaseta on the gonostylus. Mohrig (in Mohrig, Röschmann & Rulik 1999) also included in Keilbachia those species which have two or six curved megasetae and an apical tooth on the gonostylus. For practical reasons, we call the group with two or more curved mesial megasetae arising from a common basal body as the Keilbachia flagria group. All except for one species have the apical tooth. The monophyly of the species currently included in Keilbachia is uncertain in our view, and will be discussed in another context (Hippa, Menzel & Vilkamaa in preparation).