Borophaga Enderlein, 1924

Mostovski, Mike B., 2004, New records of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from South Africa, with description of a new species and hitherto unknown males, African Invertebrates 45, pp. 125-125 : 129-130

Genus Borophaga Enderlein, 1924

Subgenus Latiborophaga Brown, 1992

Brown (1992) erected the genus Latiborophaga for two neotropical and two afrotropical species originally described in the genus Borophaga . Disney (1994) proposed to treat Latiborophaga at the subgeneric rank. I tend to agree with the latter opinion at

the present stage, for although these species do constitute a distinct group, characters used to separate Latiborophaga from Borophaga at the generic level are insufficient. The deflection of the wing vein RS does not occur in rufibasis males and cannot be used in the (sub)generic diagnosis.