Montismyia, González, 2017

González, Christian R., 2017, The genus Acellomyia González, a new taxonomic arrangement of its species and descriptions of a new genus and two new species from southern South America (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini), Zootaxa 4337 (4), pp. 523-539 : 535

Montismyia gen.n. González

Type species: Montismyia lauta ( Hine, 1920) n. comb. (here designated)

Diagnosis. Medium-sized (body length 13. 0–14.5 mm). Eyes without bands, with abundant and long ommatrichia. Basal callus subquadrate with median dorsal projection extending more than half the height of the frons. Ocellar triangle vestigial, without ocelli. Scape and pedicel with long setae; first flagellomere strongly angulate dorsally. Maxillary palpus slender, with abundant and short setae. Mesonotum with longitudinal stripes anteriorly, hairy. Scutellum with long setae laterally and shorter on the disc. Coxae, femora, and tibiae with long setae, remaining leg segments with short setae. Wings with clouds on the crossveins of cells bm, br, and d; R4 with a short appendix; cell cup with short appendix. Basicosta with short setae. Terminalia (follows Coscarón & Philip, 1967): cerci subovoid. Gonapophysis with distal border slightly projecting and sinuous. Sternite 8 with straight and wide base. Genital fork with narrow base. Spermathecal ducts short.

Etymology. The generic epithet Montismyia is a combination of montis, a noun alludes to the Latin words for mountains and Greek words myia for fly.