Phrosinellina Verves, 1989

Verves, Yury & Khrokalo, Liudmyla, 2017, A review of subtribe Phrosinellina Verves, 1989, with description of Phrosinella (Asiometopia) kocaki sp. nov. from the Middle East (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae: Metopiaini), Turkish Journal of Zoology 41 (1), pp. 43-59 : 44

Subtribe Phrosinellina Verves, 1989

Verves, 1989: 119; Povolný and Verves, 1997: 107; Nandi, 2002: 122; Verves and Khrokalo, 2006: 101.

Bright colored flies of small or medium size (3.0–10.0 mm in length). Eyes large, bare; frons as wide as or more widened than eye, parafacials very broad, genae narrow or midheight; flagellomere 3–7× as long as pedicel; arista bare or microchaetose, widened in the proximal 0.6–0.8. Lower margin of head more or less shortened; prescutellar acr absent or unclear; wing cell r 5 narrowly open or closed; abdomen usually with distinct dorsal black or brown spots or bands at hind surfaces of tergites, or sometimes with checkering pattern; sexual dimorphism inconsiderable (male fore tarsi often with bristles or brushes of specialized setae).