Hybobata

Marshall, Stephen A., 2017, Micropezidae (Insecta, Diptera, Acalyptratae) of Madagascar and a revision of the genus Paramimegralla Hennig, Zootaxa 4290 (2), pp. 244-280 : 247

Notes on Hybobata

Hybobata Enderlein 1922 gen. restit.

Hybobata Enderlein 1922: 196 . Type species Calobata triannulata Macquart 1844 by original designation. Hybobata Enderlein ; Verbeke 1956

Mimegralla Rondani in part, Hennig 1935, Steyskal 1980, Barraclough 1991. Cylosphen Frey 1929 ; Verbeke 1951.

Enderlein named the genus Hybobata in 1922 to include the type species, Calobata triannulata Macquart from Madagascar, and two West African species ( H. tessmanni , H. gibbifera ) that he described in the same paper. Frey described another African Hybobata species, H. gowgyi , from Uganda, in 1929. Hennig (1935) treated Hybobata as a junior synonym of Mimegralla but Verbeke (1951) treated Hybobata as a synonym of Cyclosphen , later (1956) moving the Afrotropical species previously treated as Cyclosphen into Hybobata and describing two further African species ( H. maynei , H. basilewskyi ) as Hybobata . Steyskal (1980) followed Hennig (1935) in treating African Hybobata and Cyclosphen as Mimegralla in the Catalog of Afrotropical Diptera , but this was not justified. The type species of Cyclosphen and Mimegralla are both from Southeast Asia, and differ widely from the African " Mimegralla " sensu Steyskal. The African species form a distinct clade of relatively robust species with a characteristic short, curved basal distiphallus that contrasts with the elongate, straight basal distiphallus of the Southeast Asian species so far examined (but " Mimegralla " needs to be revised and remains poorly defined). Hybobata is the oldest name for the African clade, and is thus used here.