Asiconops Chen, 1939

Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2019, New conopid records from the Afrotropical Region (Diptera: Conopidae). Part 2: Conopinae excluding Physocephalini, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 49 (2), pp. 277-349 : 287

Subgenus Asiconops Chen, 1939

Whilst I have no doubt that the Afrotropical Conops s. str. and the subgenus Smithiconops are monophyletic, this is not the case for the species-rich subgenus Asiconops . As a starting point I distinguish three easily recognised species-groups, which can be distinguished using Key 5. I am aware that these groups are not monophyletic, but the two characters used to distinguish the groups are easy to recognise and are usually mentioned in the descriptions of earlier authors.