Phycus Walker

Badrawy, Haitham B. M., 2013, A review of the genera Acathrito Lyneborg, Phycus Walker and Salentia Costa (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae) from Egypt, Zootaxa 3635 (4), pp. 491-497 : 494

Key to species of genus Phycus Walker in Egypt

1. Scape shorter than head and distinctly shorter than flagellum (Fig. 6)................................ P. insignis Loew

- Scape longer than head and at least as long as flagellum ( Figs 3 , 5).............................................. 2

2. Coxae and femora bright yellowish; scape as long as flagellum (Fig. 5); thorax with a single broad, longitudinal whitish tomen- tose stripe medially (Fig. 4); two notopleural setae........................................ P. rufofemoratus Kröber

- Coxae and femora blackish; scape longer than flagellum ( Fig. 3 ); thorax with two longitudinal whitish tomentose stripes sepa- rated by a narrow medial stripe ( Fig. 2 ); one notopleural seta.................................. P. marginatus Kröber

Figures

FIGURES 2, 3. Phycus margintatus Kröber. 2. thorax, dorsal view. 3. antenna (adopted from Lyneborg 1983). 4, 5. P. rufofemoratus Kröber. 4. thorax, dorsal view. 5. antenna (adopted from Lyneborg 1983). 6. antenna of P. insignis Kröber (adopted from Lyneborg 1983).