An overview of the Afrotropical Ommatiinae (Diptera: Asilidae) with a key to genera Author Scarbrough, A. G. text Zootaxa 2010 2010-07-19 2540 1 47 journal article 1175-5326 Emphysomera Schiner Figs. 24–29 , 107 Emphysomera Schiner, 1866: 845 . Type species: Ommatius conopsoides Wiedemann, 1828 , by original description; Hull 1962: 259 ; Martin 1964: 308 ; Daniels 1989: 333 ; Scarbrough & Marascia 1996: 71 . Diagnosis. The genus is distinguished by the long woolly setae, spatulate abdomen, the shape of the r 4 cell ( Fig. 24 ), and unique terminalia of both sexes ( Figs. 26–29 ). FIGURES 19–23. Cophinopoda pulchripes Bigot , male terminalia. 19. Epandrium; 20. Gonocoxite and hypandrium; 21. Aedeagus; 22. Female, sternite 8; 23. Spermathecae. Abbr.: distph=distiphallus; epiph=epiphallus; goncx=gonocoxite; pvapod=posteroventral aedeagal apodeme; spmth caps= spermathecal capsule. Distribution . Subsaharan Africa and Madagascar . Remarks . Emphysomera was long considered a synonym of Ommatius ( Oldroyd 1975 , 1980 ; Martin 1964 ; Daniels 1989 ). In a review it was reinstated to genus ( Scarbrough & Marascia 1996 ). The distribution of the genus is presented in Fig. 107 . Emphysomera macquarti Bezzi, 1908 , and E. haemorrhoides Lindner, 1955 , were declared synonyms of E. pallidapex Bigot, 1891 . Three subsaharan species, E. auribarbis Wiedemann, 1828 ( Democratic Republic of Congo , Guinea , Ivory Coast , Mozambique , Sierra Leone , Uganda ), E. pallidapex ( Botswana , Chad , Democratic Republic of Congo , Gambia , Ghana , Ivory Coast , Liberia , Senegal , Sierra Leone , South Africa , Swaziland , Tanzania , Uganda , Zambia , Zimbabwe ), and E. spinalis Scarbrough & Marascia, 1996 ( Chad , Kenya , Malawi , Mozambique , Zimbabwe ), are recognized. Only E. atrogaster Bigot, 1859 has been collected in Madagascar . Adults have been collected margin vegetation of roads and trails through forests, bushveld and mixed woodland communities during each month in the year using hand nets and malaise and black light traps.