Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 94. (Budapest 2002)

Papp, L.: Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera) from Taiwan

Legs comparatively short. Coxae not particularly elongated, but fore coxa as long as height of head and 1.5 times as long as hind coxa. Hind leg far longer and thicker thanfore and mid legs, hind tibia baseball-bat shaped, hind metatarsus extremely thick. Tibial spurs 0:1:2 (mid tibial spur rather weak). Wing (Fig.l) comparatively short, much shorter than abdomen. Wing darkened but not conspicuously patterned. Costal area at R, conjointment simple. Sc vein reaching to the middle of wing but ends free. Abdomen thin and much longer than that of Seguyola MATILE. Tergite 9 broad and slightly longer than gonocoxites. Male genitalia not prepared. In this case it does not seem indispensable to regard the details of male genitalia in order to know the most important relations among the known genera. On one hand, body characteristics are markedly different, the male genital parts of the different genera are not basically different, on the other. Etymology -1 name this new genus after Dr LOÏC MATILE, the greatest student of the Mycetophiloidea families. Remark - I concur with MATILE'

s classification of the Lygistorrhinidae in four genera (but cf. BECHEV 2000). This new genus is not readily treatable by his key for the genera. I think its closer relative is Seguyola MATILE, 1990, an Afrotropical genus (only two ocelli, hind leg enlarged and thickened, no macrochaeta on tibia). The differentiating characters of the two genera are numerous: Seguyola Matileola head rather globular much higher than long proboscis minute medium long flagellomeres 11 14 mesonotum strongly humped slightly humped fore/hind coxa nearly 1:1 1:1.5 tibial spurs 1:2:2 0:1:2 wing vividly coloured almost unicolorous C area at apex of R, broadened normal abdomen ca. as long as wing, not thin much longer than wing, very thin tergite 9/gonocoxites much less than 1.0 1.0 or slightly more While describing this new genus, one specimen of Seguyola variegata MATILE, 1990 was found in the collection of the HNHM. This is a damaged male (abdomen, antennae for legs, left mid leg lost, the minuten pin pricked through right wing), but the main generic characteristics are easily seen on it. Its label data are: Ghana, Kumasi, 12-14. VI. 1965, leg. Endrődy-Younga. This record much wid-