Microphontes gen. n.

Type species: Microphontes whittingtoni sp, n.

Description: Small, brown-yellow, silver-gold pruinose stenopogonine asilids with the following combination of characters: Head (Fig. 43): blackish; clearly wider than high in anterior view. Antenna: yellow; scape same length as pedicel, segment 3 ca. twice as long as scape and pedicel combined, style terminal, small, cylindrical with spine-like seta. Mystax shiny white, confined to lower/of plane face; palpi 2-segmented, Thorax: mesonotum with 3 broad, black, longitudinal bands (central one reaching anterior margin); postmetacoxal area membranous; anepimeral bristle absent; ca, 3-4 pairs marginal scutellar macrosetae, disc bare. Wing (Fig. 44): ca. 3 mm long, transparent, immaculate, uniform rnicrotrichial cover, C extends around entire wing margin, cells m] and cup open at wing margin. Legs: pulvilli and empodia well developed. Abdomen: ♂ terminalia rotated through 90--180°; ♂ epandrial lobes separate (hardly touching basally); hypandrium moderately developed with elongate, triangular mediodistallobe.

Etymology: Gr. m. mikros - small + phontes - slayer (refers to the small size of this assassin fly).