Beris Latreille, 1802

Lee, Junho & Suh, Sang Jae, 2022, First record of the soldier fly genus Beris Latreille (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) from Korea, with designation of two new synonyms, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 80487-80487 : 80487

Beris Latreille, 1802

Beris Latreille, 1802 - Latreille 1802: 447 (Type-species: Stratiomys sexdentata Fabricius).

Hexacantha Meigen, 1803 - Meigen 1803: 264 (Type-species: Musca clavipes Linnaeus).

Octacantha Lioy, 1864 - Lioy 1864: 586 (Type-species: Beris fuscipes Meigen).

Hemiberis Enderlein, 1921 - Enderlein 1921: 209 (Type-species: Beris quadridentata Walker).

Diagnosis

Unlike other genera in this subfamily, this genus has a degenerated maxillary palpus and the scape and pedicel have almost the same length. In males, hind tarsomere 1 is particularly swollen (about two times wider than the hind tibia).

See following references for details: Nagatomi and Tanaka (1972), Woodley (1981), Rozkošný (1982), Yang and Nagatomi (1992), Woodley (1995), Yang et al. (2014).