Ensiferella Andersson, 1977

Riccardi, Paula Raile & Ang, Yuchen, 2024, New species and new records of Chloropinae from Singapore (Diptera: Chloropidae), Zootaxa 5458 (1), pp. 83-92 : 88

Ensiferella Andersson, 1977

Genus overview. Belongs to the tribe Chloropsinini ( Riccardi & Amorim 2020) . There are nine valid species restricted to the Oriental and Australasian regions ( Liu & Yang 2012). The feeding habits of most species are unknown. The diagnostic morphological features of Ensiferella include arista thick and long, sword-shaped with short pubescence ( Fig. 4A ); long and broad ocellar triangle; wing with cell bm+dm narrow; tibial organ absent; male genitalia with band-shaped anal sclerites, surstylus short, with wide base and apex with spines, mesolobus variable (see Liu & Yang 2012; Riccardi & Amorim 2020).

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FIGURE 4. Ensiferella kanmiyai Nartshuk diagnostic features. A, habitus (modified from: https://singapore.biodiversity. online/species/A-Arth-Hexa-Diptera-002634). B, male terminalia, profile. C, male terminalia, ventral. Abbreviations: an sc, anal sclerite; ba, basiphallus; di, distiphallus; ep, epandrium; hy, hypandrium; me, mesolobus; ph, phallapodeme; pr, pregonite; po, postgonite; su, surstylus.