Dryxini, Zatwarnicki

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed K., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz, 2019, An overview of the Ephydridae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4711 (3), pp. 401-445 : 411

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191316

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scientific name

Dryxini
status

 

Key to genera and species of Dryxini View in CoL from the Saudi Arabia

1. Notopleuron bearing a single large seta; presutural supra-alar seta lacking; mid- and hind femora moderately long to very long, length subequal to that of abdomen............................................ Corythophora longipes Loew, 1862

- Notopleuron bearing 2 setae; presutural supra-alar seta usually present; mid- and hind femora normally developed, length much shorter than that of abdomen............................................................................2.

2. Katepisternal seta absent or very weakly developed..................................... Oedenops isis Becker, 1862 View in CoL

- Katepisternal seta present, usually well developed ( Paralimna Loew View in CoL )............................................3.

3. Body generally dark colored, dark brown to grayish brown; eye distinctly higher than wide; gena short, usually slightly less than length of basal flagellomere (subgenus Phaiosterna Cresson View in CoL )...... Paralimna (Phaiosterna) bicolor ( Macquart, 1851) View in CoL

- Body coloration contrastingly bicolored, silvery white to gray and dark brown; eye round, about as wide as high; gena high, height usually greater than length of basal flagellomere...................................subgenus Paralimna Loew View in CoL

Macquart, M. J. (1851) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4 e supplement publie dansles memoires de 1849 (concl.). Memoires de la Societe royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille, 1850, 134 - 294.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Hydrelliinae

Tribe

Dryxini