Udzungwomyia Grichanov, 2018

Grichanov, I. Ya., 2024, Four new species of the genus Udzungwomyia Grichanov, 2018 from Lesotho and South Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), Russian Entomological Journal 33 (1), pp. 116-123 : 117

Genus Udzungwomyia Grichanov, 2018

DIAGNOSIS. This generic diagnosis is based on males and females (if known) of six included species, and lists features considered to be of generic importance. Body generally brown-black, weakly pollinose; body length 2–3 mm; pleura and abdomen laterally often silvery white pollinose; face in middle distinctly or strongly narrowed; antenna about as long as head height, black; postpedicel about as large as pedicel, semiglobular, with indistinct apex; stylus usually preapical; mesonotum with 1 long and 1 short notopleural, 1 supra-alar setae; facial suture distinct at least at eye borders; posterior third of mesonotum distinctly flattened; 4 or 5 pairs of strong dorsocentrals; acrostichal setae absent; lateral scutellars present, short, hair-like; mid and hind legs with short, but distinct black major setae; apex of male hind tibia and base of hind basitarsus thickened, often with modified setae; distal section of vein M 1+2 weakly curved, R 4+5 and M 1+2 slightly converging on distal half, subparallel at wing apex; anal vein well developed; epandrial foramen positioned basally or laterally, shifted towards base; male sternum 4 and/or 5 enlarged, forming hood; male segment 6 bare, segment 7 reduced, devoid of setae; segment 8 welldeveloped, setose; male genitalia small, partly concealed; hypandrium midventral, bifurcated, with two long or short lateral arms; phallus simple; surstylus and cercus short. Female terga 9+10 divided medially into 2 hemitergites, each bearing one thick spine and several long simple setae.