Megaphthalma 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 : 541

Genus Megaphthalma Becker, 1894

[Japanese name: Kiiro-funbae-zoku]

Megaphthalma Becker, 1894: 105 . Type-species: Scatomyza pallida Fallén, 1819 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Head yellowish except for eyes; 3 fr, 3 or (1 proclinate, 2 latero-reclinate), 1 oc, 1 poc, 1 vte, 1 vti, vibrissal angle with 1 vibrissa; postpedicel short and rounded apically; palpi slender and clavate; scutum yellow to dark brown; thoracic sclerites yellow; 2 pprn, 2 npl, 1+2 ial, 1+2 sa, 2 pa, 2 +3 dc, 1 dsc; apsc absent; 1 prepst and 1 prepm; 4 anepst, 1 kepst; proepimeron sparsely with yellowish hairs; abdominal tergites yellow; male sternite V prominently bilobate posteriorly; male surstyli long and slender; male cerci clothed with setulae.