Antocha Osten Sacken, 1860

Podenas, Sigitas & Young, Chen W., 2015, Antocha crane flies from Taiwan (Diptera: Limoniidae: Limoniinae), Zootaxa 4048 (4), pp. 523-537 : 524

Antocha Osten Sacken, 1860

Antocha Osten Sacken, 1859 ; Lackschewitz, 1940; Ishida, 1958; Alexander, 1968; Savchenko & Krivolutskaya, 1976; Savchenko, 1983; Torii, 1992; Podenas & Byun, 2013; Oosterbroek, 2015.

Taphrophila Rondani, 1856 ; Edwards, 1938; Lackschewitz & Pagast, 1942; Tjeder, 1958; Hutson & Vane-Wright, 1969. Type species: Antocha saxicola Osten Sacken, 1859

Diagnosis. Small to medium-sized crane flies with wing length ranging from 3.5 to 9.5 mm. General body coloration from brownish-yellow to brown, gray or nearly black. Antennae 16–segmented, simple, flagellomere with ring of verticils at base. Wing generally wide, usually without any darker marks except indistinct stigma. Posterior wing margin with large, nearly right-angled cell a2. Male terminalia with ninth tergite transverse, ninth sternite separated from tergite; gonocoxite elongate, cylindrical, often with rounded setose mesal lobe; two pairs of terminal gonostyli. Lower pair of gonostyli usually darkened, strongly sclerotised. Ovipositor with straight or slightly arched cercus, lower margin of cercus straight or saw-shaped.