Medeventor Wheeler, 2007

Bazyar, Zeinab & Silva, Vera Cristina, 2018, Two new species of Medeventor Wheeler from South America (Diptera, Chloropidae, Oscinellinae), Zootaxa 4407 (4), pp. 563-572 : 564

Medeventor Wheeler, 2007

Medeventor Wheeler, 2007 : Type-species, Medeventor nubosus Wheeler (orig.des.).

Modified diagnosis. Ocellar triangle not reaching the frons apex, along its sides an irregular row of interfrontal setulae which has variation in its position; frons considerably extended, densely covered with short setulae; gena broad, with scattered sparse setulae on ventral half, slightly striated; proboscis short; inner and outer vertical setae and post-ocellar setae longer and more robust than other head setae. Scutellum convex, rounded at posterior margin; 1‒2 postalar, 1 intra-postalar, 1 postpronotal, 1+2 notopleural setae. Male sternite 6 present; basiphallus elongate and sclerotized; distiphallus short; pre- and postgonites fused, with a patch of small sensillae; epandrium without any modification and convex; cerci small. Female epiproct with a pair of divergent pale setae; cerci thin and long.