Procystiphora Felt, 1915

Jiao, Kelong & Bu, Wenjun, 2010, Notes on the genus Procystiphora Felt, 1915 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) with description of one new species inducing galls in branchlets of a bamboo in China, Zootaxa 2717, pp. 53-61 : 54

Genus Procystiphora Felt, 1915

Procystiphora Felt 1915: 212 .

Type species, Procystiphora coloradensis Felt, 1915 (orig. des.).

With the description of the new species, this Holarctic genus consists of five plant-feeding species including the new species. Three, including the new species, are distributed in the Palaearctic and two in the Nearctic. Sato et al. (2009) redescribed Procystiphora and gave a detailed generic diagnosis. In the present paper, some parts of the generic diagnosis are broadened as follows to contain all known Procystiphora species: female eighth tergite incised or concave deeply only posteriorly or both posteriorly and anteriorly; male hypoproct with lobes pointed apically or rounded apically; empodium longer than or as long as tarsal claw. The differences between Procystiphora and other allied genera may be found in Gagné (1975) and Skuhravá (1997).