Published September 3, 2021 | Version v1
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Pseudohercostomus Stackelberg 1931

Description

Key to male Pseudohercostomus

1. Male with cerci twice as long as epandrium (Oriental Region)..................................... P. sinensis Yang & Grootaert

– Male with cerci shorter than epandrium.................................2

2. Postpedicel apically rounded..................................................3

– Postpedicel triangular (tip pointed)........................................4

3. Propleural bristle white; fore coxa with white bristles; antenna black (Neotropical Region, Chile)............. P. allini Negrobov

– Propleural bristle black; fore coxa with back bristles; antennae yellowish-brown (Oriental Region)............................................................................................ P. singaporensis, new species

4. Scape yellow; mesoscutum metallic blue with green reflections; 4–5 dorsocentral bristles bristling on squama entirely black (Oriental Region)............................... P. echinatus Stackelberg

– Scape brown; mesoscutum metallic green only; 6 dorsocentral bristles (anterior most short); bristling on squama partly white (Afrotropical Region)................... P. congoensis, new species

Notes

Published as part of Grootaert, Patrick & Velde, Isabella Van de, 2021, Understanding the tangled taxonomy of the genus Pseudohercostomus Stackelberg, 1931 (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with description of new species from Singapore and DR Congo, pp. 324-335 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69 on page 334, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2021-0055, http://zenodo.org/record/7174735

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Dolichopodidae
Genus
Pseudohercostomus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stackelberg
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudohercostomus Stackelberg, 1931 sec. Grootaert & Velde, 2021