Microprosopa Becker, 1894

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 : 547

Genus Microprosopa Becker, 1894

[Japanese name: Hoso-funbae-zoku]

Microprosopa Becker, 1894 , Berl. Ent. Z., 39:147. Type-species: Cordylura haemorrhoidalis Meigen, 1826 : Syst. Beschr., 5: 237, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Head blackish, only gena partly whitish; 2 fr, 3 or (2 proclinate, 1 latero-reclinate), 1 oc, 1 poc, 1 vte, 1 vti, vibrissal angle with 1 vibrissa and 1 subvibrissa; postpedicel short and rounded apically; palpi spatulate and whitish; proepimeron with yellowish hairs; 2 pprn, 2 npl, 1+2 ial, 1+2 sa, 2 pa, (1-2) +3 dc, 1 bsc, 1 apsc; 1 prepst (yellow) and 1 prepm (yellow); 3 anepst, 1 kepst; abdomen slender and elongate; male sternite V prominently bilobate posteriorly; male surstyli stout and tapered apically.