Stiloculicoides, Wirth & Grogan, 1988

Borkent, Art, 2024, The Phylogeny of the Genera of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the World, Zootaxa 5438 (1), pp. 1-274 : 231

Stiloculicoides :

- Female labrum with tiny apical pegs. This feature is nearly unique in Ceratopogonidae (but see Camptopterohelea ).

- Anterior cervical sclerite slender and curved, somewhat L-shaped.

- Anterior anepisternum either very reduced to anterior portion or mostly pale (not certain) against what is otherwise a brown thorax. This feature was confirmed for only for S. africanus Clastrier , the only species studied here. This feature is unique in the family although the anterior anepisternum is also pale in Parastilobezzia and a few other taxa but in these the entire (or most of) the pleura is pale.

- Male with parameres widely separated medially, closely associated with the base of each gonocoxite. This feature, unique in the family, may not apply to all species as the parameres, reasonably well-developed in some, are tiny, represented by a slight sliver of cuticle or perhaps absent in others (e.g. S. africanus ) ( Clastrier 1993a).