Tendcornphora, DISNEY, 2015

DISNEY, R. Henry L., 2015, Three new genera of Oriental scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae), Fragmenta Faunistica 58 (2), pp. 71-77 : 72-75

Tendcornphora gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Frons without bristles or median furrow, postpedicels greatly elongated with a small apical arista, palps and proboscis small, scutellum almost as large as scutum, mesopleuron bare and without a median furrow, hypopygium unusually small, mid tibia without pre-apical bristles, hind tibia without a dorsal hair palsade but with a row of posterodorsal long bristles, costal index less than 0.25, vein 3 unforked. In the key to males ( Disney 1994) it readily runs to couplet 15, where lead 1 runs on to two genera that are clearly different. Lead 2 takes one to couplet 35, lead 1 to Leptilla Borgmeier 1963 . However, although its costa is also exceptionally short, its postpedicel is broad basally before it starts to taper before this distal portion which has long hairs, its palp is 4 times as long as its breadth, the frons has bristles and its hypopygium is clearly different.

Etymology. Named after the long drawn out (stretched) postpedicels of the male antennae.