Chillcottomyia Saigusa, 1986

Sinclair, Bradley J., Andrade, Rui & Gonçalves, Ana Rita, 2025, Chillcottomyia Saigusa new to Europe (Diptera, Empidoidea, Hybotidae), Evolutionary Systematics 9 (2), pp. 167-172 : 167-172

Chillcottomyia Saigusa

Chillcottomyia Saigusa, 1986: 97. Type species, C. septentrionalis Saigusa (original designation).

Recognition.

The genus Chillcottomyia is distinguished from other genera of Hybotinae by the eyes with dense ommatrichia, wing with broad anal angle, cell cua short, two-thirds length of cell bm and closed by straight vein CuA, cell dm short and broad, and hind femur narrow. The genus can be identified by using the identification key to the genera of Hybotidae in Sinclair and Cumming (2017).

Distribution.

Species of this genus have been described from China, Japan, Nepal and South Africa, with undescribed species known from Indonesia ( West Java), Madagascar, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam ( Saigusa 1986; Sinclair and Cumming 2017; Zouhair and Kettani 2022; Sinclair unpubl. data). This is the first report of the genus from Europe.