Afromicrodon Thompson, 2008.
Cheng, X. and Thompson, F.C. (2008) A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China. Zootaxa 1879, 21-48.
From Cheng and Thompson, 2008.
Head: Face evenly convex, narrow, about 1/5 head width, pilose; mouthparts normal; eye bare; male dichoptic, with eyes separated by about width of ocellar triangle; gena very narrow, not visible in lateral view; antenna short, shorter than face; scape slightly longer than basoflagellomere, about twice as long as wide; basoflagellomere short, about twice as long as wide; ocellar triangle equilateral, anterior, about its length anterior to posterior eye margin; occiput very narrow except slightly expanded on dorsal 1/3.
Thorax: postpronotum pilose; propleuron bare; anepisternum pilose except bare along posterior margin; katepisternum bare; anepimeron bare except pilose ventroposteriorly; katepimeron (barrette) bare; metasternum underdeveloped, bare; transverse suture normal, incomplete medially; scutellum simple, convex or only slightly excavated apically, without teeth. Legs: normal, not enlarged, without pile brushes; femora with cicatrices indistinct, without spinose patches. Wing: microtrichose; vein R4+5 without appendix; vein M without appendix; crossvein r-m basal, at basal fourth of cell DM; vein M1 straight, joining vein R4+5 perpendicularly; vein M2 present, short; cell DM rounded apicoposteriorly.
Abdomen: oval. Male aedaegus bifid apically, hypandrium posteriorly prolonged and with tuft of long pile (see fig. 2 (De Meyer et al. 1990: 571).
Included species: Ceratophya comoroensis De Meyer, De Bruyn & Janssons (1990: 571), Microdon johannae van Doesburg (1957: 109), Ceratophya madecassa Keiser (1971: 256) and Ceratophya stuckenbergi Keiser (1971: 258).
The species of Afromicrodon were previously and erroneously placed in the genus Ceratophya due to an error in Hull's world key to the genera of Microdontinae (1949: 306).
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