Prophora, Grimaldi, 2018
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090-423.1.1 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612845 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B187A8-FFD6-FFAC-FC95-3DA37EFAFDD4 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Prophora |
status |
gen. nov. |
Prophora View in CoL , new genus
DIAGNOSIS: Proleg stridulatum present (seen in holotype specimen only); frons with well-developed median sulcus, one pair of fronto-orbital setae in both sexes; one pair of interfrontals in male, 3 pairs in female; one pair of verticals in male, two pairs in female; basal flagellomere not sexually dimorphic in size; one pair of dorsocentrals, two pairs of scutellars present; sternites well developed in male, lost in female except for terminal two sternites (7 and 8); lacking wing-vein characters of Euphorida (i.e., chars. 19–24 in table 4, fig. 43).
TYPE SPECIES: P. dimorion , n. sp.
ETYMOLOGY: Pro - (“first, before”), and - phora, common suffix for generic names in the Phoridae . The name is feminine.
COMMENTS: The possession of a sulcus on the frons and great reduction in female sternites (which occur in stem-group and many crowngroup Euphorida), but more generalized venation of the Sciadocerinae , makes the phylogenetic position of this genus apparently close to the basal fork of the two lineages.
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