Spathipheromyia Bigot, 1884

Patitucci, Luciano Damián, Olea, María Sofía & Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo, 2019, A review of Spathipheromyia (Diptera: Muscidae) from Argentina with the description of an extra-large new species, Zootaxa 4701 (2), pp. 168-178 : 169

Spathipheromyia Bigot, 1884

Diagnosis. Dichoptic, eyes bare, 1 pair of reclinate orbital seta, frons broader than long; dorsocentral setae 1+3, prealar absent, proepimerals 1-2, katepisternals 1+1+1, forming an equilateral triangle, prosternum bare; wing with veins bare and some species with white spots; hind tibia with one supramedian anterodorsal, 4 preapical setae (posterodorsal, posterior, anterodorsal, and anteroventral surfaces, the anteroventral one smaller) ( Fig. 2j ), sternite 1 bare. Male terminalia: cercal plate longer than wide, surstylus longer than wide with several microscopic setulae on lateral surface and with a preapical process, hypandrium tubular with the lateral wall narrow towards the distal end exposing the phallapodeme.

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FIGURE 2. Spathipheromyia goliat sp. nov. a–h. Male: a. Lateral view (scale bar: 1 mm). b. Head, frontal view. c. Thorax, dorsal view. d. Abdomen, dorsal view (scale bars: 0.5 mm). e. Sternite 5. f. Cercal plate, posterior view. g. Cercal plate and surstylus, lateral view. h. Phallic complex detailed, lateral view (scale bar: 0.2 mm). i–l. Female: i. Lateral view (scale bar: 1 mm). j. Ovipositor, dorsal view. k. Ovipositor, ventral view (scalebar: 0.2 mm). l. Preapical setae of hind tibia (scalebar: 0.5 mm). (Abbreviations: acroph, acrophallus; ad, anterodorsal; av, anteroventral; blu, blunt spine; distiph, distiphallus; d, dorsal; epiph, epiphallus; epiprct, epiproct; hyprct, hypoproct; phapod, phallapodeme; pd, posterodorsal; pgt, postgonite; pregt, pregonite.)