Megaphthalmoides Ringdahl, 1936

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 : 542

Genus Megaphthalmoides Ringdahl, 1936

[Japanese name: Sesuji-funbae-zoku]

Megaphthalmoides Ringdahl, 1936 , 179. Type-species: Cordylura unilineata Zetterstedt, 1838: 727 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Head yellowish except for eyes; 2-3 fr, 3 or (1proclinate, 2 latero-reclinate), 1 oc, 1 poc, 1 vte, 1 vti, vibrissal angle with 1 vibrissa and 1 subvibrissa (small); postpedicel short and rounded apically; palpi filiform and whitish; thorax yellow to light brown; scutum and prescutum often with dark longitudinal stripes; 2 pprn, 2 npl, 1+2 ial, 1+2 sa, 2 pa, 2+3 dc, 1 dsc, 1 apsc; 1 prepst and 1 prepm; proepiperon with yellowish hairs, 2-4 anepst, 1 kepst; abdomen basally flat and apically cylindrical; male sternite V prominently bilobate posteriorly; male surstyli long and slender; male cerci covered with strong setulae.