Dicranota ( Ludicia ) Hutson & Vane-Wright, 1969

Dicranota ( Ludicia) Hutson & Vane-Wright, 1969 View in CoL

Pedicia ( Ludicia) Hutson & Vane-Wright, 1969: 243.

Rhaphidolabis ( Rhaphidolabina) Alexander, 1916: 540; Alexander 1950: 17; Savchenko and Krivolutskaya 1976: 35; Savchenko 1983: 39; Savchenko 1986: 168; Savchenko 1989: 25–26.

Dicranota ( Ludicia) Starý 1996: 122. View in CoL

Type species.

Tricyphona lucidipennis Edwards 1921 (original designation) (West Palaearctic).

Redescription.

Medium-sized dark brown Dicranota crane flies.

Head. Antenna 15 - segmented, reaching to frontal margin of presutural scutum, if bent backwards. Antennal verticils slightly exceeding length of respective segments.

Thorax. Presutural scutum with four distinct dark longitudinal stripes. Wing without any dark spots except indistinct stigma. Rs usually short, sometimes slightly elongate, branches into R 2 + 3 and R 4 + 5. Discal cell present, but cross-vein m-m could be very weak.

Abdomen. Posterior margin of epandrium nearly straight or deeply concave, lateral lobe could be long, narrow and slightly curved or missing. Gonocoxite of male terminalia with dorso-apical lobe. Lobe covered with small black spines. Interbase small. Two pairs of gonostyli. Outer gonostylus covered with small black spines. Ovipositor with long and comparatively wide, slightly arched cercus and straight hypogynial valve reaching to approx. middle of cercus. Dorsal margin of valve covered with long setae at base, tips of them reaching to ~ 2 / 3 of valve.

The subgenus Dicranota ( Ludicia) includes 19 species ( Oosterbroek 2025), distributed in the Oriental Region (11 species) and Palaearctic region (8 species), with four species in Eastern and four in Western Palaearctic regions.