Lepidodexia, Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891

Buenaventura, Eliana & Pape, Thomas, 2018, Phylogeny, evolution and male terminalia functionality of Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183 (4), pp. 808-906 : 838

Genus Lepidodexia

Male abdominal ST5 with a widely V-shaped cleft, with a rounded expansion taking up the entire posterior half*; phallus with a distinct hinge between basi- and distiphallus; paraphallic apical expansions present; distiphallus with a hinge between paraphallus and harpes; proximal and distal parts of harpes separated by a hinge; vesica bipartite: with a C-shaped medial section and a convex, sclerotized distal section*; vesica with a proximal spinous lobe*; acrophallus formed of a capitis, lateral styli and a median stylus; lateral styli tube-shaped and with an outlet; capitis flat and simple; juxta angled relative to phallic tube; juxta squared with an undulated distal margin; juxta slightly displaced anteriorly relative to longitudinal axis of phallic tube* Additional character states for internal classification of Lepidodexia : first flagellomere elongated, at least four times the length of pedicel (only in subgenera Chlorosarcophaga , Dexomyophora Townsend and Notochaeta Aldrich); facial ridge with dense setosity on lower 0.70 (only in subgenus Dexomyophora ); male with proclinate fronto-orbital setae (only in subgenus Neophyto Townsend ); postgenal setulae white or yellow (only in subgenus Hallina Lopes ); distance between occiput and antennal base longer than distance between occiput and vibrissal angle (only in subgenera Archimimus and Neophyto ); proepisternum setulose (only in subgenus Notochaeta ); postalar wall setulose (only in subgenera Chlorosarcophaga , Dexomyophora and Hallina ); third costal sector of wing setulose ventrally (except in subgenus Hallina ); male mid-femur with a ctenidium of rounded spines (circular cross section) (only in subgenus Archimimus ); male hind tibia with an apical postero-ventral seta differentiated (only in subgenera Notochaeta and Neophyto ); male abdominal tergites metallic blue, purple or green (only in subgenus Chlorosarcophaga and some species of subgenus Notochaeta ); pregonite distally spatulated (only in subgenus Archimimus ); distal part of harpes sclerotized (except in subgenus Hallina ); harpes dorso-medially over base of lateral styli (except in subgenus Archimimus ); median stylus tube-shaped and with an outlet (except in subgenus Archimimus ).