Cephalosphaera Enderlein, 1936

Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Marques, Dayse W. A. & Rafael, José Albertino, 2022, Cephalosphaera Enderlein and Neocephalosphaera De Meyer (Diptera: Pipunculidae) of Colombia, with description of nine new species and an updated key to their Neotropical species, Zootaxa 5178 (4), pp. 301-333 : 303

Cephalosphaera Enderlein, 1936

Pipunculus (group I); Becker, 1897: 35, 36 (partim); 1900: 216 (partim); 1921: 123 (partim); Verrall, 1901: 296 (partim).

Pipunculus (group II); Cresson, 1911: 296 (partim)

Cephalosphaera Enderlein, 1936: 129 . Type species Pipunculus furcatus Egger, 1860 (not monotype, see ICZN, 1961: 230); Hardy, 1943: 40 (partim); Aczél, 1948: 73; 1952: 24; Rafael, 1992; 634, figs 42.1–42.72; De Meyer, 1994: 8; 1996: 38; Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 440; Rafael & Skevington, 2010: 797, figs 3, 22–23; Souza & Ale-Rocha, 2009: 988; Motamedinia et al. 2021: 14 (phylogeny).

Strandimyza Duda, 1940: 216 . Type species: Pipunculus furcatus Egger, 1860 (monotypy). Synonymized by Aczél, 1948: 73.

Anacephalops Aczél, 1940: 151 . Type species: Pipunculus amboinalis Walker, 1860 (original designation); Hardy, 1943: 128; Aczél, 1948: 78; 1952: 239. Synonymized by Hardy, 1966: 2.

Dorilas (Cephalosphaera) ; Hardy, 1950: 11.

Pipunculus (Cephalosphaera) ; Hardy, 1965a: 201; 1965b: 15; 1965c: 554 (partim); 1966: 2; 1975; 297; 1980: 484.

Diagnosis (adapted from De Meyer 1994). Small to medium size (4–6.3 mm). Eyes holoptic in males, dichoptic in females; ocellar bristles absent. Postpedicel with acuminate to filiform apex. Scutum with inconspicuous dorsocentral bristles (acrostichal absent). Proepisternum with fan-like setae tuft. Hind tibia with a comb of longer setae apically. All femora with ventral ctenidia. All femora with ventral ctenidia. Wing with vein M 2 and pterostigma. Abdomen with inconspicuous pilosity; tergite 1 with fan-like lateral bristles (rarely absent). Mid tibia with a tuft of longer setae apically. Syntergosternite 8 with the membranous area not reaching the epandrium or tergite 5 and often strongly reduced in size. Most species, but not all, with phallus with ejaculatory ducts short.