Efflatouniella Kröber, 1927

Mohammad, Salwa K. & Badrawy, Haitham B. M., 2011, Revision of Efflatouniella Kröber, 1927 (Diptera: Therevidae), Zootaxa 2926, pp. 55-60 : 56

Genus Efflatouniella Kröber, 1927

Efflatouniella Kröber, 1927: 15

Type-species: E. aegyptiaca Kröber, 1927 , by monotypy

Diagnosis. Small to very small sized (3.5–4.8 mm), greyish to yellowish brown flies with head higher than long. Eyes touching in males and widely separated in females. Frons with distinct black, round spot or narrow dark furrow at center; ocellar tubercle black; antenna shorter than head, scape longer than pedicel, flagellum longer than the length of scape and pedicel, consisting of one large basal segment, and a second much smaller and thinner segment with a minute apical style; palpus one segmented. Prosternal depression bare, 3–4 notopleural macrosetae, 1 supra-alar macroseta, 1 postalar macroseta, 1 dorsocentral macroseta and one pair of scutellar macrosetae; wings transparent or maculate, vein C ends at R5 (veins M1, M2 and M3 not reaching to wing margin) or at CuA2 (veins M1, M2 and M3 reaching to wing margin), cell r4 long and narrow, three times as long as wide at apex; femora without anteroventral setae, pulvilli present. Abdomen conical.

Remarks. This genus has not been treated thoroughly since the original description and the depository of the type specimens of Efflatouniella aegyptiaca was previously unknown. According to this study, the diagnostic characters of this genus are based on examination of the cotype which is preserved in CUC—collected from Abu Rawash 16.VIII.1925 - and the remnant part of the holotype (only the left wing, specimen destroyed by dermestid beetles) which is preserved in ESEC—collected from Kerdassa 10.VII.1926. Together with the type and cotype specimens, it was found the invalid name labels (genus name) Efflatounia aegyptiaca Krb. Ƥ Kröber det. 1926.