Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001

Kehlmaier, Christian, 2005, Taxonomic studies on Palaearctic and Oriental Eudorylini (Diptera: Pipunculidae), with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 1030 (1), pp. 1-48 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1030.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5052917
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scientific name	Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001
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Genus Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001 View in CoL View at ENA

Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001 View in CoL : in Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 435.

Type species: Pipunculus helluo Perkins, 1905 ; by original designation.

The genus Clistoabdominalis Skevington, 2001 was only recently erected as a result of a phylogenetic study on the world Eudorylini ( Skevington & Yeates 2001) . Some of the key characters of this genus are an enlarged and subshining syntergosternite 8, which bears only a small membranous area or none at all, a normally enlarged ejaculatory apodeme and a considerably deflected hypandrium.