Cyrtomyia Bigot, 1857

Lamas, Carlos José Einicker & Rodrigues, Paula Fernanda Motta, 2013, Review Of Cyrtomyia Bigot (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Ecliminae) With A Key To The Neotropical Genera Of Ecliminae And Cyrtomyia Species, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53 (7), pp. 87-97 : 87-97

Cyrtomyia Bigot, 1857

Cyrtophorus Bigot, 1857: 292 . Type species: Cyrtophorus pictipennis Bigot, 1857 , by monotypy. [Preoccupied by Le Conte, 1850]. Loew, 1858: 347; Philippi, 1865: 652; Schiner, 1868: 113; Becker, 1913: 475; Painter et al., 1978: 22; Evenhuis, 1991: 33.

Cyrtomyia Bigot, 1892: 340 (new replacement for Cyrtophorus Bigot, 1857 ). Type species: Cyrtophorus pictipennis Bigot, 1857 , automatic. Becker, 1913: 431, 437, 475; Edwards, 1930: 170; Paramonov, 1931: 40; Stuardo Ortiz, 1946: 91; Hall, 1969: 2, 3; Hull, 1973: 231, 232, 238; Painter & Painter, 1974: 94; Hall, 1976: 3, 10, 18, 119, 120, 124; Painter et al., 1978: 22; Greathead, 1988: 14, 16-20; Evenhuis, 1991: 33; Yeates, 1994: 21, 26, 64, 73, 74, 82, 113, 118, 125, 150, 163, 183, 190; Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 207.

Toxophorinarum Verrall, 1909: 479. Type species: Cyrtophorus pictipennis Bigot, 1857 , by subsequent designation ( Evenhuis, 1991: 75). [Unavailable; name proposed in synonymy with Cyrtophorus Bigot and not made available before 1961]. Evenhuis, 1991: 75; Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 207

Diagnosis

Among the genera of Ecliminae , Cyrtomyia shows similarities to Eclimus Loew and Palintonus François , as these three groups lack the strongly developed prothorax that is present in Lepidophora Westwood and Marmasoma White. However , the closest morphological similarities are observed between Cyrtomyia and Lepidophora . To separate these two genera, the bare postpedicel, weakly developed prothorax, male eyes set more closely together ( Fig. 2 ), and lack of spatulate scales observed in Cyrtomyia are easy to observe.

Figures

FIGURE 2: Cyrtomyia chilensis Paramonov, 1931 (dorsal view).