MYOPINAE MACQUART, 1834

Gibson, Joel F. & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2013, Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of all genera of Conopidae (Diptera) based on morphological data, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167 (1), pp. 43-81 : 67

MYOPINAE MACQUART, 1834

Type genus Myopa Fabricius, 1775: 798 . Included tribes: Myopini , Thecophorini trib. nov. Uncontroverted morphological autapomorphies: basisternum short, narrow, single sclerite (47); veins Sc and R 1 fused before reaching costa (73). A double row of black spines is present on the ventral surface of all femora (52) in all members of Myopinae ; this character state is also observed in Baruerizodion and Robertsonomyia + Zodiomyia .

Gibson et al. (2012) recover Myopinae as monophyletic with the same set of apomorphic character states, but only include representatives of Myopa , Thecophora , and Pseudoconops . They add the following additional apomorphic character state for those taxa: two, separate, anterior arms on the hypandrium. Macquart (1834) originally described Myopariae, including Myopa , Stachynia [now Dalmannia ], and Zodion , with the following diagnostic characters: veins R 4+5 + M not petiolate; alula small; prementum elongate; labellum sometimes elongate and folded back along prementum. In the present analysis, both petiolate and nonpetiolate states of vein R 4+5 + M are observed in genera of Myopinae . The prementum in Myopinae is in the state plesiomorphic to Conopidae . The elongate and ventrally directed labellum is an autapomorphy of Conopidae .

In addition to the present members of Myopini and Thecophorini , previous classifications also included genera presently placed within Dalmanniinae , Sicinae, and Zodioninae within Myopinae . See discussions of those subfamilies for details in distinguishing the members of each respective subfamily.