Eudasyphora Townsend, 1911

Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2009, The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses, Zootaxa 1976, pp. 1-24 : 11

Subgenus Eudasyphora Townsend, 1911

Eudasyphora Townsend, 1911: 170 (as genus). Type species: Lucilia lasiophthalma Macquart, 1834 [= Musca cyanella Meigen, 1826 ].

Diagnosis. Colouration metallic purplish-blue to greenish-blue with silver pruinosity; wing at most with a macula on humeral vein. Female with the parafrons weakly setulose on upper half. Dorsocentrals 3+4. Prosternum bare. Wing with basal portion of stem-vein bare dorsally. First abdominal sternite widely setulose or with setulae only on lateral margins.

Comments. Nihei and de Carvalho (2007a) did not support the monophyly of Eudasyphora , as Dasyphora s.s. is nested within Eudasyphora . Further studies are needed to verify this condition in order to preserve this subgenus or to merge it with Dasyphora s.s.

Distribution (10 species). Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic.

References. Nearctic species: Cuny (1980); Oriental: Emden (1965), Cuny (1980), Xue and Chao (1998); Palaearctic: Hennig (1963b, 1964a), Peris and Llorente (1963), Cuny (1980), Gregor et al. (2002), Shinonaga (2003).