Spaziphora Rondani, 1856

Iwasa, Mitsuhiro, 2021, Three new species and six new records of Scathophagidae (Diptera) from Japan with a key to the Japanese genera, Zootaxa 4981 (3), pp. 531-553 : 549

Genus Spaziphora Rondani, 1856

[Japanese name: Migiwa-funbae-zoku]

Spaziphora Rondani, 1856 : Dipt. Ital. Prodromus, 1: 99. Type-species: Cordylura hydromyzina Fallén, 1819: 7 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Head whitish to black; 3-4 fr, 3 or (2 proclinate, 1 latero-reclinate), 1 oc, 1 poc, 1 vte, 1 vti, vibrissal angle with 1 vibrissa and 1-2 subvibrissae; postpedicel with acute or slightly angular upper corner; palpi distinctly spatulate and whitish; proepisternum and proepimeron with yellowish hairs; anepimeron covered with hairs in posterior half and row of black setae along posterior margin; thorax grey dusted; 2 pprn, 2 npl, 1+2 ial, 1+1 sa, 2 pa, 2+3 dc, 1 bsc, 1 apsc; 1 kepst; prepst and prepm absent; abdomen slender, elongate, and grey dusted; male sternite V with three pairs of tubercles; male surstyli short and stout, clothed with strong setae; female ovipositor short and cylindrical.