GIBSON, Gibson & Skevington, 2013

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 : 67-68

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00873.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5295244
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF5687AA-6C03-E651-91DA-F91DFE9958F9
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	GIBSON
status	trib. nov.

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THECOPHORINI GIBSON TRIB. NOV.

Type genus Thecophora Rondani, 1845: 15 . Included genera: Pseudoconops Camras, 1962a: 183 , Scatoccemyia Camras, 1957a: 13 , Thecophora . Uncontroverted morphological autapomorphies: costa thickened at insertion of Sc + R 1 (74).

Gibson et al. (2012) recover a monophyletic Thecophorini using molecular and morphological analysis, including representatives of Pseudoconops and Thecophora . Additional uncontroverted morphological autapomorphies provided are: dorsal half of proepisternum with patch of setae; hypandrium with broad, setose, anterior plate; and a repeated segment of DNA sequence in the D2 expansion section of the 28S rDNA region. The first character state is found by the present analysis to be an autapomorphy of Pseudoconops + Thecophora .

Species examined – Pseudoconops antennatus ; Scatoccemyia plaumanni ; Thecophora africana ; Thecophora atra ; Thecophora australiana ; Thecophora metallica ; Thecophora modesta ; Thecophora occidensis .