Coenosia cubitalis (Emden, 1940: 181)

(Figs 71–73)

Holotype male seen; in good condition.

Diagnosis. Large species (5–8 mm), brown with grey pollinosity, with brown stripes on scutum, the median one reaching apex of scutellum; frons velvety black, as wide as an eye; arista very short-haired; scutellum with both pairs of setae long; haltere yellow; anterior katepisternal seta short; coxae and femora grey pollinose; trochanters and tibiae yellow, contrasting with the grey ground-colour; legs long; pulvilli and claws welldeveloped; male with base of vein R4+5 a little enlarged and darkened, basal third of M very enlarged and darkened; hind tibia with one anterior and one anterodorsal seta, the anterior a little shorter than the anterodorsal, both inserted at the same level; sternite 5 as in Fig. 71.

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 72. Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 73.

Notes. Included in the tigrina group. Couplet 2(1) of Emden’s (1940) key to species mentions that both C. cubitalis and C. hippelates (Emden, 1940) have the base of veins R4+5 and M thickened and darkened, but in C. cubitalis this is much stronger. Also, to differentiate the males of both species, C. hippelates has a very long and curved ventral spur on hind tibia (Emden 1940: Fig. 72). One male paratype was dissected and illustrated.