Plesiomma Macquart, 1838

Scarbrough, Aubrey G. & Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E., 2006, A review of the asilid (Diptera) fauna from Hispaniola with six genera new to the island, fifteen new species, and checklist, Zootaxa 1381, pp. 1-91 : 72-73

Plesiomma Macquart

Plesiomma Macquart, 1838: 54 . Type species: testacea Marquart, designated by Back, 1909: 306.

Remarks. This genus is limited to the New World with at least 14 species of which at least 5 are found in the Greater Antilles. The species are black, yellowish, or reddish with elongated, slender, wasp-like bodies with red or brown wings and are usually associated with low growing vegetation at low altitude. The genus is distinguished by the unusually wide head and converging face and frons so that the vertex is quite narrow. The male

terminalia is rotated about 90–120 degrees. The female terminalia have long spoon-shaped spines; sternite 8 has a median cleft apically.