Genus Cordilura Fallén, 1810

[Japanese name: Higenaga-funbae-zoku]

Cordilura Fallén, 1810: 15 . Type-species: Musca pubera Linnaeus, 1758 (mon., misident.) [= Cordylura rufipes Meigen, 1826], designated by Vockeroth (1965).

Cordylura: Fallén (1810: 6), Meigen (1826: 229). Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Gorodkov (1986) and Jong (2000) recognized three subgenera ( Cordilura Fallén, 1810, Cordilurina James, 1955; and Scoliaphleps Becker, 1894) in the Palaearctic Cordilura, but these were not accepted by Šifner (2008) and Ozerov & Krivosheina (2014). In the present paper I follow Šifner (2008) and Ozerov & Krivosheina (2014), therefore, this genus is defined by the following combination of characteristics.

Diagnosis. Head yellow to black; 3–4 fr, 2–3 or (proclinate, lateroclinate, lateroreclinate) (Fig. 16); 1 oc, 1 poc, 1 vte, 1 vti; postpedicel 2–3 times as long as wide (Figs 6, 18); arista plumose or short-haired; vibrissal angle with 1 vibrissae and 1 subvibrissa; palpus with 1 strong subapical seta as long as or longer than palpus (Fig. 7); proepisternum covered by hairs at middle or on anterior part; 2 pprn, 2 npl; 1 prest ial; 2+3 dc, 2 sa, 2 pa, 1 dsc (strong), 1 apsc (generally small), 1–2 prepst, 1 prepm; 1–5 anepst, 1 kepst; vein A 1 +CuA 2 extending to wing margin or abruptly ending well before wing margin; fore femur and tibia without ventral row of long spinous setae; male sternite V prominently bilobate posteriorly (Fig. 2); male surstylus slender or stout, or often bifurcate into anterior and posterior lobes apically (Figs 3, 4).