Platypalpus Macquart

Barták, Miroslav & Shamshev, Igor, 2015, Species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Uzbekistan, with descriptions of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3926 (3), pp. 351-376 : 352

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3926.3.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5675362
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scientific name	Platypalpus Macquart
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Platypalpus Macquart View in CoL

Coryneta Meigen, 1800: 27 . Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775 , by subsequent designation of Engel (1939: 43). Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1963: 339 (Opinion 678).

Platypalpus Macquart, 1827: 92 View in CoL . Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775 , by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840: 132).

Phoroxypha Rondani, 1856: 146 . Type-species: Tachydromia longicornis Meigen, 1822 View in CoL , by original designation.

Cleptodromia Corti, 1907: 101 (as subgenus of Tachydromia View in CoL ). Type-species: Tachydromia (Cleptodromia) longimana Corti, 1907 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Brevios Brunetti, 1913: 22 . Type-species: B. longicornis Brunetti, 1913 View in CoL , by original designation.

Howlettia Brunetti, 1913: 23 . Type-species: H. flavipes Brunetti, 1913 , by monotypy.

Charadrodromia Melander, 1928: 292 View in CoL . Type-species: C. microphona Melander, 1928 View in CoL , by original designation.

Tachydromia View in CoL , authors, not Meigen, 1803, misidentifications.

Diagnosis. Very small to large species with body size varying from about 1.0 to 5.0 mm, recognised by the following combination of characters: eyes separated in both sexes, bare; postpronotal lobe well differentiated; scutum usually distinctly longer than broad; mid leg raptorial, mid femur thickened and armed with rows of spinelike setae ventrally, mid tibia usually with more or less prominent apical spur; wing with veins A1 and CuA2 present (cell cup present).