Scatella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz & Irwin, Anthony G., 2018, Taxonomic notes on the genera Scatella and Scatophila (Diptera: Ephydridae) with a remark on Trixoscelis chilensis (Trixoscelididae), Zootaxa 4377 (1), pp. 91-109 : 92-93

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4377.1.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5967089
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scientific name	Scatella Robineau-Desvoidy
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Genus Scatella Robineau-Desvoidy

Scatella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 801 . Type species: Scatella buccata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (= Ephydra stagnalis Fallén, 1813 ), subsequent designation by Coquillett, 1910: 603.

Remarks. The male terminalia of Scatella are highly specialized with a uniform shape of the epandrium, having a simple, obclavate outline, reduction of the phallapodeme, and enlarged ejacapodeme. The gonites are narrow and bear an antero-dorsal claw-shaped projection and the aedeagus is weakly sclerotized. Thus the use of male terminalia for species recognition is limited.