Hybos Meigen

Shamshev, Igor, Grootaert, Patrick & Kustov, Semen, 2015, New data on the genus Hybos Meigen (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Palaearctic Region, Zootaxa 3936 (4), pp. 451-484 : 453

Genus Hybos Meigen

Hybos Meigen, 1803: 269 ; 1804: 239. Type species: Hybos funebris Meigen, 1804: 240 (des. Curtis, 1837: plate 661) [= Hybos grossipes ( Linné, 1767) ].

Noeza Meigen, 1800: 27 . Type species: Musca grossipes Linné, 1767: 988 (des. Coquillett, 1910: 576). Suppressed by I.C.Z.N., 1963: 339.

Neoza , error.

Parasyneches: Frey, 1953: 57, in reference to as a subgenus of Hybos .

Pseudosyneches Frey, 1953: 66 (as subgenus of Hybos ).

Diagnosis. Moderate-sized, slender-bodied species with long, narrow, horizontal proboscis with labellum modified for piercing, without pseudotracheae; eyes narrowly but distinctly separated on face, not virtually contiguous; thorax strongly arched; hind tibia linear (apart from basal geniculation) or slightly inflated distally, never strongly swollen apically; hind femur usually strongly inflated, with strong spines or setae, at least ventrally; only two veins from discal cell; cell cup slightly longer than bm; cell cup produced posteroapically, inner angle formed between CuA2 and A1 strongly acute with CuA2 usually distinctly curved; vein Rs short arising distal to the middle of cell bm; vein between cells bm and br (basal part of M) strong; veins R4+5 and M1 not convergent apically; female terminalia often modified, with tergite 8 partly or entirely encircling abdomen.