Physoconops Szilady 1926
Creators: name: Stuke, Jens-Hermann
name: Skevington, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Conopidae
Physoconops

description: Physoconops Szilady, 1926 s. str.
Key for the Costa Rican species of Physoconops Szilady, 1926 s. str.
1 Wing completely covered with microtrichia; theca very long (figures 51, 57) with the field of dense black bristles restricted to the apical third of the projecting part ........................................................................ 2
- Basal radial cell br, posterior cubital cell cup and alula at least partly without microtrichia; theca in some species shorter (figures 49, 61, 68) and if long (analis) the field with dense black bristles covering almost all of the projecting part ............................................................................................................................. 3
2 Subscutellum grey dusted; gena partly blackish (figure 56) .............................. discalis (Williston, 1892)
- Subscutellum golden dusted; gena yellow (figure 52)............................ aureoscutellatus (Kröber, 1937)
3 Mesopleuron with golden well defined dusted stripe that is connected with the pubescence at the inner sites of the postpronotum (figure 47); subscutellum with bristles; theca as figure 49 .................................. .......................................................................................................................... anthreas (Williston, 1892)
- Mesopleuron without golden well defined dusted stripe (figure 59); subscutellum with or without bristles; theca not as above ...................................................................................................................................... 4
4 Subscutellum without bristles; katepisternum at most with single weak bristle; wing as in figure 46: apex behind radial cell r4+5 hyaline, radial cell r4+5 hyaline, radial cell r2+3 dark, slightly lighter apically (compared with radial cell r4+5); antennal groove and gena yellow; vertex red-brown; theca as figure 45 ............ ............................................................................................................................. analis (Fabricius, 1805)
- Subscutellum with bristles; katepisternum with 1–2 strong bristles; wing as in figures 62, 69: apex behind radial cell r4+5 blackish, radial cell r4+5 blackish at the anterior border, radial cell r2+3 consistently dark (as radial cell r4+5) throughout; antennal groove and gena black; vertex black; theca as figures 61, 68 ......... 5
5 Flagellum shorter than pedicel (measured ventrally) (figure 59); theca larger (figure 61) ........................... ................................................................................................................ nigromarginatus (Kröber, 1915)
- Flagellum as long or longer than pedicel (measured ventrally) (figure 64); theca smaller (figure 68) ......... .................................................................................................................................... zumbadoi spec. nov.
description: Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2007, The Conopidae of Costa Rica (Diptera) (Part 1: Conopinae – Conopini & Tropidomyiini), pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 1528 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273851