Sphiximorpha Rondani, 1850

Cerioides Rondani, 1850: 211. Type Ceria subsessilis Illiger in Rossi, 1807.

Sphiximorpha Rondani, 1850: 212. Type Ceria subsessilis Illiger in Rossi, 1807.

Sphecomorpha Bezzi, 1906: 51. Unjustified emendation and junior homonym of Specomorpha Hübner, 1809 –1813 (Lepidoptera).

Ceriathrix Hull, 1949: 381. Type Cerioides bulbosa Meijere, 1924.

Shambalia Violovitsh, 1981: 85. Type S. rachmaninovi Violovitsh, 1981 (as Spiximorpha; misspelling of Sphiximorpha).

Frontal prominence much shorter than wide at base. Face with long paraface and large or deep anterior tentorial pit. Facial tubercle weak to nearly absent. Eye bare. Pile on thorax and tergites rather long. Basisternum (Fig. 55) higher than wide, with nearly straight dorsal margin and two triangular lobes on ventral margin. Anepisternum and anepimeron separated by a membranous area. Metasternum long pilose without modifications. Procoxa (Fig. 52) broad, about as wide as long, with a short groove dorsally. Postmetacoxal bridge incomplete. Dorsal lobe of calypter with a fringe of short and rather dense pile. Tergite II somewhat longer than wide, slightly constricted anteromedially. Callus of tergite I absent. Callus of sternite I elongate, oval and partly sclerotized. Genitalia (Figs 148–150, 157–165): dorsal lobe of surstylus elongate, ventro-basal lobe large and rounded to rectangular shaped; dorsal lobe with scattered pile on apico-dorsal surface and setose on ventral surface; epandrium round with large membranous area; cercus elongate and triangular-shaped; surstylar apodeme rectangular, not fused, entirely but slightly sclerotized; hypandrium broad, with simple rounded superior lobe and short elongate lingula.