Claraeola Aczel , 1940

Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2019, Revision of Claraeola (Diptera, Pipunculidae) in the Middle East based on morphology and DNA barcodes, ZooKeys 873, pp. 85-111 : 85

Claraeola Aczel, 1940

Claraeola Aczél, 1940: 151. Type species: Dorylas adventitius Kertész, 1912, by original designation.

Congomyia Hardy, 1949b: 7. Syn. by Skevington and Yeates 2001: 429. Type species: Congomyia nigripennis Hardy, 1949, by original designation. Syn. by Skevington and Yeates 2001: 429.

Moriparia Kozánek & Kwon, 1991: 77. Type species: Moriparia nigripennis Kozánek & Kwon, 1991, by original designation. Syn.: Skevington and Yeates 2001: 429.

Diagnosis.

Medium to large big-headed flies, body length 3.2‒7.4 mm, wing length 3.2‒8.4 mm, pedicel with 4‒10 upper and 3‒10 lower bristles, flagellum gray to brownish gray pruinose, frons silver-gray pruinose with a weak median keel, postpronotal lobe with 6‒18 setae, scutellum with 8‒22 short setae along posterior margin, hind tibia with a wrinkled indentation mid-anteriorly bearing some erect setae, pterostigma present, cross-vein r-m reaches dm at or after one third of the cells length, abdomen ovate or elongate, ground color dark (in some specimens with narrow posterolateral yellow marks), tergite 1 with 3-20 long bristles, situated in one to three rows, tergite 2 with or without lateral bristles, membranous area medium to large, epandrium mostly wider than long (LS8:HS8 <1), phallus partly clothed in small, but distinct setae or teeth, arranged on membranous sheath or on ejaculatory ducts.

Biology.

Unknown

Distribution.

Palearctic (Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, North Korea, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia), Oriental (Borneo, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam), Afrotropical (Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Madagascar, Malawi, Uganda), and Australian (Australia, Papua New Guinea) ( Skevington and Yeates 2001; Skevington 2002; Kehlmaier 2005a, 2005b; Földvári 2013; Motamedinia et al. 2017a, 2017b; Kehlmaier et al. 2019).