Lipoptilocnema, 1934

Buenaventura, Eliana & Pape, Thomas, 2015, Phylogeny of the Peckia-genus group: evolution of male genitalia in the major necrophagous guild of Neotropical flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 15 (2), pp. 301-331 : 323-324

Genus Lipoptilocnema

Townsend (1934) erected Lipoptilocnema (with Lipoptilocnema lanei Townsend, 1934 as type species), which later was considered as a subgenus of Sarcophaga by Pape (1996). In our morphology-based analyses, Lipoptilocnema koehleri (Blanchard, 1939) and Lipoptilocnema crispina (Lopes, 1938) formed a monophyletic group, which in turn is the sister taxon of the clade ( Helicobia + Sarcophaga ).

The monophyly of Lipoptilocnema was supported by four autapomorphies: (1) cercal prong with dorsal surface Sshaped, (2) surstylus with anterior and posterior margin slightly folded, (3) paraphallic apical elongated expansion with apical spines, and (4) juxta tongue-shaped, broad proximally and gradually getting narrow to the entire apex.