Asiometopia Rohdendorf, 1935

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 : 49

Subgenus Asiometopia Rohdendorf, 1935

Asiometopia Rohdendorf 1935: 126 (as genus).

Type species: Pedimyia kozlovi Rohdendorf, 1925 ; by original designation.

Asiometopia : Rohdendorf, 1935: 126 [key to species], 1971b: 129 [revision]; Chao and Zhang, 1998: 1528 [in key], 1532 [redescription and faunistic]; Verves, 1986: 88 [catalogue].

Phrosinella (Asiometopia) : Verves, 1990: 553 [in key]; Verves and Khrokalo, 2006: 102 [in key].

Bright colored small or midsized flies (4.5–10.0 mm in length). Frontal vitta distinctly narrower than one of parafrontalia, blackish, more or less lightly dusted; lower margin of head very short; abdomen with dark bands or spots in hind parts of tergites; each of 1st–4th tarsomeres of ♂ fore tarsi with a pair of very long curved apical ad and pd; R 1 dorsally bare or with several black hairs in basal half; 5th tergite densely lightly dusted in fore 0.3–0.6. Seven species are distributed in arid zones of the Palearctic region.

Habits: The larvae of Asiometopia sp. were developed in dead insects in nests of such sphecid wasps as Liris opalipennis (prey - nymphs of crickets), Palarus aurantiacus , and Philanthus triangulum (prey - different Apoidea and Sphecoidea) ( Myartzeva, 1972a).