Tuberculanostoma Fluke, 1943

Thompson, F. Christian & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2014, Afrotropical flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). A new genus and species from Kenya, with a review of the melanostomine group of genera, Zootaxa 3847 (1), pp. 97-114 : 106

Genus Tuberculanostoma Fluke

Tuberculanostoma Fluke, 1943: 425 . Type, antennatum Fluke by original designation.

Neotropical region only, high Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia (4 species, last revision Fluke (1943). Another species, solitarium van Doesburg (1955: 50), was described from the Karakorum mountains (Oriental region). Unfortunately, the species was based only on females and differs significantly from the Neotropical species in having a head with reduced eyes, enlarged gena and ventral occiput, very deep anterior tentorial pits and very broad facial stripes. Tuberculanostoma has a normal head (except for snout), with large eyes, small narrow gena and ventral occiput, shallow tentorial pits and narrow facial stripes. Unfortunately, without a male the description of a new genus for this strange Karakorum species would be premature.