Prochyliza
Creators: name: Martín-Vega, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Piophilidae
Prochyliza

description: Key to the species of Prochyliza
1. Pedicel unusually elongate, in male twice (Fig. 4 A), in female equally (Fig. 4 B), as long as flagellomere (Nearctic).......................................................................................... P. xanthostoma Walker
- Pedicel normal, not or scarcely half as long as flagellomere in either sex (Fig. 4 C, D)............................... 2
2. Lower quarter to three quarters of frons orange, higher part shining black (Fig. 5 A–C).............................. 3
- Frons light orange to brownish black, but always uniformly coloured from lunula beyond anterior ocellus (Fig. 1 B, D).... 7
3. Front coxa pale yellow (Fig. 5 A)........................................................................ 4
- Front coxa brownish black (Fig. 5 B, C)................................................................... 6
4. Gena yellow, lower two- to three quarters of frons orange (Fig. 5 B). Mid femur and tibia yellow. Hind femur and tibia partially darkened. Males with posterior margin of sternite 5 straight. Male epandrium without a pair of distinct horn-like spines arising on lower half of posterior margin (Nearctic)............................................. P. brevicornis Melander
- Gena black, only lower quarter or less of frons orange (Fig. 5 C). Both mid and hind femora and tibiae either yellow or black. Males with posterior margin of sternite 5 strongly emarginated (unknown in P. a z t e c a). Male epandrium with a pair of distinct horn-like spines (Fig. 5 D) arising on lower half of posterior margin (unknown in P. azteca)........................... 5
5. Mid and hind femora and tibiae entirely yellow. Margins and fringes of calypteres white (Neotropical)... P. a z t e c a McAlpine
- Mid and hind femora and tibiae mostly black. Margins and fringes of calypteres brownish (Neotropical)... P. i n c a McAlpine
6. Mid and hind tibiae entirely yellow. Anepimeron pruinose along ventral margin above katepisternal seta. Mid tibia and hind coxa of male not ornamented (Nearctic).......................................... P. nigricoxa (Melander & Spuler)
- Mid and hind tibiae mostly blackish. Anepimeron glossy on ventral margin above katepisternal seta. Tibia of male with a brush of long, yellowish hairs at apex on posteroventral surface (Fig. 5 E). Hind coxa with a comb of short, stout setae (Holarctic)...................................................................................... P. lundbecki (Duda)
7. Front coxa entirely yellow to almost completely darkened (Fig. 1 A, B; Fig. 4 D). Mid and hind legs entirely yellow (Fig. 1 A); some individuals with mid and hind femora and tibae more or less darkened (Fig. 1 B). Male and female abdominal sternites with rounded margins (Fig. 2 A, B; Fig. 3 B, D); in males the anterior margins are usually emarginated and the posterior margin of sternite 5 is sinuate (Fig. 2 A, B) (Holarctic and Neotropical)............................... P. nigrimana (Meigen)
- Front coxa completely darkened (Fig. 4 C). Legs darkened (Fig. 6 A, B). Male and female abdominal sternites quadrangular, with straight margins, including the posterior margin of sternite 5 (Fig. 2 D, E; Fig. 3 A, C), only the anterior margin of sternite 2 is emarginated (Fig. 6 B) (Palaearctic)................................................ P. georgekaplani sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Martín-Vega, Daniel, 2014, On the identity of Prochyliza nigrimana (Meigen) and Prochyliza nigricornis (Meigen) (Diptera: Piophilidae), with a synopsis of Prochyliza Walker and description of a new species, pp. 277-292 in Zootaxa 3893 (2) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/224982