Eumecosoma Schiner, 1866

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 : 42

Eumecosoma Schiner

Eumecosoma Schiner, 1866: 673 . Type species: Laphria pleuritica Wiedemann, 1828 , by original designation. Hull, 1962: 379; Martin & Papavero, 1970: 49.

Remarks. This Neotropical genus consists of 11 species described from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. These small dark flies have a slightly diverging vertex, the elongated, oval flagellum has an acute apex and a preapical spine. The abdomens are smooth or minutely punctuate with 7 exposed tergites in the male, 8 in females. In males, the seventh tergite is about 1/2 as long and wide as the sixth, and the terminalia are exposed. Species usually perch on the tops of leaves in shadows of small sunlit spots of nearly mature forests ( Fisher and Hespenheide, 1992; Fisher, in press). Here we report the first record of the genus from the West Indies.