Scatellini
Creators: name: Costa, Daniel N. R.
name: Savaris, Marcoandre
name: Marinoni, Luciane
name: Mathis, Wayne N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ephydridae

description: Key to Neotropical Genera and Subgenera of Scatellini Wirth and Stone
1. Lateroclinate fronto-orbital seta 0–1....................................................................... 2
- Lateroclinate fronto-orbital setae 2........................................................................ 3
2. Costa short, extended to vein R4+5........................................................... Scatophila Becker
- Costa long, extended to vein M............................................................. Limnellia Malloch
3. Genal seta large, conspicuous. Wing usually with distinct to obscure pale spots (Scatella Robineau-Desvoidy)............ 4
- Genal seta greatly reduced or lacking. Wing without pale spots.................................. Haloscatella Mathis
4. Postsutural supra-alar seta subequal in length to postalar seta.......................... Scatella (Parascatella Cresson)
- Postsutural supra-alar seta reduced, 1/2 length of postalar seta.................................................. 5
5. Dorsocentral setae 2 (0+2), anterior seta postsutural.......................................................... 6
- Dorsocentral setae 2–3 (1+1, 1+2), anterior seta presutural..................................................... 7
6. Wing generally darkly infuscate, with evident pattern of white spots; dorsum of scutellum bare; setae of midcoxa short; male midfemur lacking row of setae...................................... Scatella (Scatella Robineau-Desvoidy), in part
- Wing lightly infuscate, faintly brown, but lacking pattern of white spots; dorsum of scutellum setose, more so toward lateral margins; midcoxa with row of long setae along anteroventral surface; male midfemur with row of 7–10 long, stout setae near middle of posteroventral surface, setae longer than width of femur...................... Scatella (Teichomyza Macquart)
7. Wing micropterous, subequal to length of hindbasitarsus; pedicel with spine-like, dorsal seta subequal to length of arista.................................................................................... Scatella (Synhoplos Lamb)
- Wing stenopterous to macropterous, if reduced, much longer than length of hindbasitarsus; seta of pedicel if present much shorter, not more than 1/2 length of arista................................................................... 8
8. Only 1 well-developed acrostichal seta present, inserted at suture........................ Scatella (Neoscatella Malloch)
- Acrostichal setae generally weak, short, continuing in a postsutural row to base of scutellum.......................................................................................... Scatella (Scatella Robineau-Desvoidy), in part
description: Published as part of Costa, Daniel N. R., Savaris, Marcoandre, Marinoni, Luciane & Mathis, Wayne N., 2016, Two new, brachypterous Limnellia species from the Venezuelan Andes (Diptera: Ephydridae), pp. 301-315 in Zootaxa 4144 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/255192