Helophilus ( Pilinascia )

Key to the species groups of Helophilus ( Pilinascia) View in CoL View at ENA

1. Scutellum with two medial tuberculate swellings.............................................................. cingulatus View in CoL group

- Scutellum normal, without such tuberculate swellings...............................................................................2

2. Metafemur with a large distinct basoventral process; wing with a stigmatic crossvein.. seelandicus View in CoL group

- Metafemur simple, without a process; wing without a stigmatic crossvein................................................3

3. Eye pilose............................................................................................................................ campbelli View in CoL group

- Eye bare.......................................................................................................................................................4

4. Lateral ocelli closer to each other than to eyes; oral margin strongly produced anteriorly or ventrally; smaller, more slender and elongate flies.............................................................................. montanus View in CoL group

- Lateral ocelli closer to eyes than to each other; oral margin not strongly produced; larger and more robust flies..................................................................................................................................... antipodus View in CoL group