Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Steganinae from Canary Islands -> Cacoxenus subg Gitonides

Posted by Jan Maca on 24-09-2023 12:49
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Both P. (Sinophthalmus) and C. (Giitonides) have micropubescet arista. Still you are right with C. (Gitonides) - after consultation of literature I realized that some characters testify for its affiliation to C. (Gitonides) (lacking frontal keel, costa developed only up to r2+3). Maybe you are even right with C. (G.) perspicax, still unrecorded from Canary Islands, but note that there are more than ten species of C. (G.) in Africa - e. g. C.(G.) apidoxenus, described from Senegal...

Edited by Jan Maca on 24-09-2023 18:17