Stibasoma Schiner, 1867

Turcatel, Mauren, Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De & Rafael, José Albertino, 2010, A taxonomic revision of Stibasoma Schiner, 1867 (Diptera: Tabanidae), Zootaxa 2368, pp. 1-39 : 3

Stibasoma Schiner, 1867

Stibasoma Schiner, 1867: 93 –94; Lutz, 1915: 100 –103 (transcription of the original description); Kröber, 1932 (key); Fairchild, 1969 (definition, classification); Fairchild, 1971 (catalog); Goodwin & Murdoch, 1974 (larvae), Fairchild & Burger, 1994 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Stibasoma species resemble bees of the genus Centris Fabricius , Bombus Latreille , Xylocopa Latreille and Euglossa Latreille ( Lutz 1915) . Species with typically robust and pilose bodies, some bright yellow or orange; eyes bare and unicolored in females, holoptic and bicolored in males; vertex without depression; ocellar tubercle and ocelli indistinct; frons broad; midcallus connected to frontal callus, frontal callus continues as crest; short robust antenna, basal flagellomere of the antenna with long and curved dorsal spine; palpus shorter than proboscis, basally inflated; palpus reduced on males; labellum totally sclerotized, shiny; wings usually patterned, never completely hyaline; cell r4 open, junction of R4+R5 without appendix; tibiae inflated and pilose, fore tibia curved, hind tibia with row of long hairs posterodorsally on face; abdomen robust and strongly convex on both sides.

Species. S. apicimacula Fairchild, 1940 , S. aureoguttatum Kröber, 1931 , S. bella Limeira-de-Oliveira & Rafael, 2005, S. bicolor Bigot, 1892 , S. bifenestratum Philip, 1966 , S. chionostigma (Osten Sacken, 1866) , S. currani Philip, 1943 , S. festivum ( Wiedemann, 1828) , S. flaviventre ( Macquart, 1848) , S. fulvohirtum ( Wiedemann, 1828) , S. giganteum ( Lutz, 1913) , S. leucopleurale Barretto, 1947 , S. lutzi Barretto, 1947 , S. manauensis sp. nov., S. panamensis Curran, 1934 , S. ruthae sp. nov., S. theotaenia ( Wiedemann, 1828) , S. willistoni Lutz, 1907 .