Epimesoplecia Zhang, 2007

Lin, Xiuqin, Shih, Chungkun & Ren, Dong, 2015, Revision of the genus Epimesoplecia Zhang, 2007 (Diptera, Nematocera, Protopleciidae) with five new species, ZooKeys 492, pp. 123-143 : 124

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Protopleciidae

Genus Epimesoplecia Zhang, 2007

Type species.

Epimesoplecia shcherbakovi Zhang, 2007

Species included.

Type species, Epimesoplecia elenae Zhang, 2007, Epimesoplecia plethora sp. n., Epimesoplecia prosoneura sp. n., Epimesoplecia stana sp. n., Epimesoplecia macrostrena sp. n. and Epimesoplecia ambloneura sp. n.

Revised diagnosis.

Compound eyes connected in males. Antennae filiform or moniliform, with 16 segments, at least twice of head length or slightly less than twice of head length; wings narrow and long; Sc elongate, at or near the same level of r-m; bRs at least 4 times as long as r-m; R2+3 long, more than two-thirds of R4+5, R2+3 slightly sigmoidly curved or straight, reaching anterior margin distad of the apex of R1; r-m reaching the middle of the wing; R4+5 ending very close to wing apex; M1+2 furcated distinctly proximad or distad of R2+3; M2 more than 3 times as long as dM1+2; bM3+4 longer or slightly shorter than m-cu; pterostigma absent; bM1+2 longer or shorter than dM1+2. Legs thin and long, femur slender, almost equal to tibia; tibial spurs minute. Male genitalia: abdomen cylindrical; genitalia complex, narrower than the 8th segment, with gonocoxites rounded; gonostylus elongated, shorter than gonocoxites. Female genitalia: the 8th segment smaller than preceding segments, genitalia simple, with 2-segmented cerci, the basal segment of cerci longer than the terminal one.