Sycorax Haliday, 1839

WAGNER, RÜDIGER, AGNIHOTRI, PRIYA & SINGH, HUKAM, 2022, A new species of Sycorax (Sycoracinae: Psychodidae) from the Lower Eocene amber of Tadkeshwar, Gujarat, India, Palaeoentomology 5 (4), pp. 319-326 : 321

Genus Sycorax Haliday in Curtis, 1839

Type species. Sycorax silacea Haliday in Curtis, 1839, by monotypy.

Synonym: Microdixa Müller, 1927: 535 . Type species: Microdixa scutigera Müller, 1927 , by original designation

Diagnosis. Small specimens (<2 mm) with reduced hair coat. Wing petiolate, held horizontally over the body, apex round; R 4+5 fused to a single vein; Sc terminating perpendicular to C; perpendicular part of Sc and scr crossvein approximately of equal length; Rs at base perpendicular to R 1, bending at about right angle basal to sc-r, CuA short, often not reaching wing margin. Terminalia not inverted with strongly augmented goncoxal lobes bearing a long apical seta, gonostylus with an apical strongly sclerotized stiff bristle, almost as long as the gonostylus.