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Chonocephalus Wandolleck 1898

Description

Chonocephalus Wandolleck, 1898

Chonocephalus Wandolleck, 1898: 428. Type species: C. dorsalis Wandolleck, by monotypy.

Epichonocephalus Schmitz, 1928: 104; synonymized by Disney, 2002: 4. Type species: E. transversalis Schmitz.

Description. Male. Frons with median furrow, most frontal bristles not differentiated. Ocelli present. Arista present and articulated with postpedicel. Mesopleuron divided, with one to three small hairs near posterior margin. Tibiae without dorsal longitudinal hair palisades and pre-apical isolated bristles. Wings with costa clearly exceeding half wing length, vein R 2+3 lack, base of vein M 1 missing, without axillary bristles and small hair at base of Rs. Hypopygium with short anal tube and at least one gonopod.

Female. Ocelli, wings and halters absent. Tibiae lack dorsal longitudinal hair palisades and pre-apical isolated bristles. Abdomen with well developed tergites I–VI. Sternites 8 and 9 internal, and the single spermatheca lightly sclerotised.

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Guangchun & Chu, Mengying, 2016, First record of the scuttle fly genus Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae) from China, with description of a new species, pp. 117-121 in Zoological Systematics 41 (1) on pages 117-119, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201609, http://zenodo.org/record/5364769

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Biodiversity

Family
Phoridae
Genus
Chonocephalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wandolleck
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Chonocephalus Wandolleck, 1898 sec. Liu & Chu, 2016