Setostylus Matile, 1990

Xu, Huachao, Cao, Jian, Zhou, Zuji, Wu, Hong & Huang, Zhiwei, 2007, First record of the tribe Keroplatini from China, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Keroplatidae), Zootaxa 1497, pp. 35-40 : 37

Setostylus Matile, 1990

This is a very small genus, which comprises 9 previously described species found in the world ( Evenhuis, 2006). Of these, most species are known from the Neotropical Region and the Oriental Region. The specimen from Sichuan Province of the new species below marks the first record of the genus from the mainland of the Palaearctic Region.

The genus is distinguished from other related genera by the following characters (Matile, 1990; Søli et al. 2000): antennae strongly compressed; A1 present; R4 ending in C; laterotergite bare; fore and mid tibiae with setulae in regular rows on at least apical 1/3, hind tibia with setae in regular rows on almost entire tibial length.