Obscurcaudaphora, DISNEY, 2015

DISNEY, R. Henry L., 2015, Three new genera of Oriental scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae), Fragmenta Faunistica 58 (2), pp. 71-77 : 72

Obscurcaudaphora gen. nov.

Diagnosis. With a full set of frontal bristles, ocelli present, subglobose postpedicels, mesopleuron bare and with a mesopleural furrow, 3 bristles on notopleuron, length of cerci greater than breadth, anal tube shorter than length of epandrium, mid and hind tibiae lack preapical bristles and dorsal hair palisades, wing with tip of subcosta fusing with vein 1, vein 3 without a basal hair, costal index more than 0.5 and axillary ridge lacks bristles. In the key to genera for males ( Disney 1994) it will run to couplet 189. The lead 1 option differs in the number of scutellar hairs and bristles and its hypopygium is quite different. Taking lead 2 one proceeds to couplet 216, where it differs by having a complete set of frontal bristles. The hypopygium, the notched front basitarsus, palps and hypopygium immediately distinguish it.

Etymology. Named after the unusually dusky hypopygium of the male.