Eumecosoma Schiner, 1866

Scarbrough, Aubrey G. & Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E., 2006, A review of the asilid (Diptera) fauna from Hispaniola with six genera new to the island, fifteen new species, and checklist, Zootaxa 1381, pp. 1-91 : 42

publication ID

1175­5334

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1C4BACE-8DA8-4051-9CFC-E6AB2C7BE9BB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5073442

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E5198780-4F6D-FF9C-6328-D088FD84AC44

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Felipe

scientific name

Eumecosoma Schiner
status

 

Eumecosoma Schiner View in CoL View at ENA

Eumecosoma Schiner, 1866: 673 View in CoL . Type species: Laphria pleuritica Wiedemann, 1828 View in CoL , by original designation. Hull, 1962: 379; Martin & Papavero, 1970: 49.

Remarks. This Neotropical genus consists of 11 species described from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. These small dark flies have a slightly diverging vertex, the elongated, oval flagellum has an acute apex and a preapical spine. The abdomens are smooth or minutely punctuate with 7 exposed tergites in the male, 8 in females. In males, the seventh tergite is about 1/2 as long and wide as the sixth, and the terminalia are exposed. Species usually perch on the tops of leaves in shadows of small sunlit spots of nearly mature forests ( Fisher and Hespenheide, 1992; Fisher, in press). Here we report the first record of the genus from the West Indies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

Loc

Eumecosoma Schiner

Scarbrough, Aubrey G. & Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E. 2006
2006
Loc

Eumecosoma

Martin, C H & Papavero, N. 1970: 49
Hull, F. M. 1962: 379
Schiner, J. R. 1866: 673
1866
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