Heleomicra, D. McAlpine, 1985

McAlpine, DK, 2007, Review of the Borboroidini or Wombat Flies (Diptera: Heteromyzidae), with Reconsideration of the Status of Families Heleomyzidae and Sphaeroceridae, and Descriptions of Femoral Gland-baskets, Records of the Australian Museum 59, pp. 143-219 : 214

Key to species of Heleomicra

1 Mesopleuron pruinescent on entire posterior margin; male: surstylus complexly lobed and setulose, but without finger like lobe bearing single terminal setula; cercus deeply bilobed; female: abdominal tergite 4 almost entirely thinly pruinescent ............................................................ collessi (p. 217)

—— Mesopleuron with posterodorsal pruinescent zone and smaller posteroventral pruinescent zone, but intervening part of posterior margin with little or no pruinescence; male: surstylus distally with three lobes, one of them finger-like with single elongate terminal setula; cercus undivided (sometimes not easily visible in dried specimens); female: abdominal tergite 4 largely smooth and glossy, with pruinescent zone along anterior margin .............................................................. lenis (p. 214)