Surimyia Reemer

Reemer, Menno & Stahls, Gunilla, 2013, Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae), ZooKeys 288, pp. 1-213 : 69-70

Surimyia Reemer Figs 400-405

Surimyia Reemer, 2008: 179. Type species: Surimyia rolanderi Reemer, 2008: 180, by original designation.

Description.

Body length: 4-5 mm. Small flies with short antennae and oval abdomen. Head slightly wider than thorax. Face convex; narrower than an eye. Lateral oral margins not produced. Vertex flat. Occiput ventrally narrow, dorsally widened. Eye bare. Eye margins in male not converging at level of frons, with mutual distance about 3 times as large as width of antennal fossa. Antennal fossa about as wide as high. Antenna shorter than distance between antennal fossa and anterior oral margin; basoflagellomere shorter to longer than scape, oval, about twice as long as wide, bare. Postpronotum bare. Scutellum semicircular; without calcars. Anepisternum convex; dorsally with thick, setae-like pile, ventrally bare. Anepimeron dorsally with thick, setae-like pile, ventrally bare. Katepimeron convex; bare. Wing: vein R4+5 without posterior appendix; vein M1 straight, perpendicular to vein R4+5; postero-apical corner of cell r4+5 rectangular, with or without small appendix; crossvein r-m located very close to base of cell dm. Abdomen oval, about 1.5 times as long as wide. Tergites 3 and 4 fused. Sternite 1 bare. Male genitalia: phallus furcate, with furcation point about halfway, curved dorsad, straight, projecting not or slightly beyond apex of hypandrium; hypandrium without bulb-like base; epandrium without ventrolateral ridge; surstylus unfurcate.

Diagnosis.

Abdomen oval; yellow and black. Vein R4+5 without posterior appendix. Postpronotum bare. Antenna shorter than distance between antennal fossa and anterior oral margin.

Discussion.

Reemer (2008) included in his new genus Surimyia a species previously assigned to Paragodon ( Paragodon minutula van Doesburg, 1966). Several morphological characters were mentioned to indicate the differences between these genera ( Reemer 2008). Especially the structure of the phallus seems fundamentally different: short, straight and unfurcate in Paragodon , and long, curved and bifurcate in Surimyia . Other distinctive differences are the bare postpronotum in Surimyia (pilose in Paragodon ) and the bare anatergum in Surimyia (microtrichose in Paragodon ).

Diversity and distribution.

Described species: 2. Neotropical (presently only known from Surinam).

Syrphipogon Hull (subgenus, see Microdon )