Pterocallini

Male Xanthacrona bipustulata, copyright John Smit.

Belongs within: Ulidiidae.

The Pterocallini are a predominantly Neotropical group of picture-winged flies characterised by features of the terminalia (Kameneva & Korneyev 2010).

Characters (from Kameneva & Korneyev 2010): Body without greenish or bluish sheen; cell cup without long posteroventral lobe; if lobe long and proepisternal seta rudimentary, then face without antennal grooves or keel; male genitalia with phallus bare, ejaculatory apodeme with apical portion at least as long as fanlike portion; female abdominal sternites 4–6 without apodemes.

<==Pterocallini [Pterocallinae] KK10
|–Pterocalla plumitarsis KK10
|–Goniaeola foveolata KK10
|–Terpnomyennis nigra KK10
|–Bothrometopa determinata KK10
|–Rhyparella decempunctata KK10
|–Terpnomyia angustifrons KK10
|–Aciuroides KK10
|–Cyrtomostoma gigas KK10
|–Coscinum clavipes KK10
|–Dasymetopa [incl. Euxestina] KK10
|    `–D. lutulenta KK10
|–Tetrapleura [incl. Micropterocerus] KK10
|    `–T. picta KK10
|–Plagiocephalus KK10
|    |–P. intermedius KK10
|    `–P. latifrons KK10
|–Neomyennis KK10
|    |–N. cyaneiventris KK10
|    `–N. zebra KK10
|–Cymatosus KK10
|    |–C. bestifer KK10
|    `–C. icarus KK10
|–Ophthalmoptera K10
|    |–O. elegans KK10
|    `–O. undulata KK10
|–Parophthalmoptera KK10
|    |–P. bipunctata [=Ophthalmoptera (Parophthalmoptera) bipunctata] KK10
|    `–P. picea KK10
|–Pseudopterocalla KK10
|    |–P. obscura KK10
|    `–P. scutellata KK10
|–Apterocerina KK10
|    |–A. amoena KK10
|    `–A. argentea KK10
|–Chondrometopum KK10
|    |–C. arcuatum KK10
|    |–C. bifenestratum KK10
|    `–C. leve KK10
|–Pterocerina [incl. Sympaectria] KK10
|    |–P. fenestrata KK10
|    |–P. psidii KK10
|    `–P. ruficauda KK10
|–Paragorgopsis KK10
|    |–P. euryale KK10
|    |–P. maculata (n. d.) KK10
|    `–P. mallea KK10
|–Megalaemyia KK10
|    |–M. albostriata KK10
|    |–M. elsae KK10
|    |–M. punctulata KK10
|    `–M. radiata KK10
`–Xanthacrona KK10
|–X. bipustulata KK10
|–X. phyllochaeta KK10
|–X. tripustulata KK10
`–X. tuberosa KK10

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[KK10] Kameneva, E. P., & V. A. Korneyev. 2010. Ulidiidae (picture-winged flies). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 2 pp. 881–902. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

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