Psilota Meigen, 1822
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.7 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6641446 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/07707D5B-D418-8F24-BFC7-F935FBB6FE9A |
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Genus Psilota Meigen, 1822 View in CoL
Psilota Meigen, 1822: 256 View in CoL . Type species, Psilota anthracina Meigen, 1822 View in CoL (monotypy).
Distribution. Nearctic, Palaearctic, Oriental, and Australian regions.
Diagnosis. Psilota can be recognized by the following combination of characters: 1) eye pilose; 2) face lacking tubercle, straight to slightly concave with lower facial margin projecting anteriorly; 3) anterior anepisternum pilose; 4) subscutellar fringe present; meron with a tuft of fine pile anteroventral to posterior spiracle; 5) vein R 4+5 straight; vein M 1 oblique, forming an acute angle with vein R 4+5; 6) male surstylus forked, with narrow, curved outer lobe and broader inner lobe.
Within the Palaearctic, two well-defined species groups can be separated: P. atra species group, face only slightly microtrichose and shiny below the antenna in both sexes, thorax, and abdomen more or less bluish black and mostly shining; P. innupta species group, face densely microtrichose and dull below the antenna in both sexes, thorax, and abdomen mostly bronze-brown, adult male tergites mostly dull medially.
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Psilota Meigen, 1822
Zhao, Le, Liu, Xin, Smit, John T., Li, Gang, Liu, Han-Yue, Dang, Li-Hong & Huo, Ke-Ke 2022 |
Psilota
Meigen, J. W. 1822: 256 |