Rafaelia, Townsend, 1917

Genus Rafaelia View in CoL

Head squared in profile, with squared anterior and posterior genal corners in profile; parafacial plate with strong setae; gena and postgenal with at least some white setulae; postalar wall setulose; wing vein R 1 setulose dorsally (bare in Rafaelia natiuscula [Lopes, 1941]); third costal sector of wing bare ventrally; dorsal setulae on wing vein R 4 + 5 not reaching crossvein r-m; male mid-femur without a ctenidium; male hind tibia with apical postero-ventral seta well differentiated; male abdominal ST5 with posterior margin very widely V-shaped; cercal prong straight or almost straight; phallus with a distinct hinge between basi- and distiphallus; paraphallus dorso-distally rounded; hypophallus globose, weakly sclerotized, with only the very apex of the vesica sclerotized*; vesica broad and flat, with two small, rounded to flattened medial lobes; acrophallus formed of a capitis, hillae, lateral styli and a median stylus; hillae directed latero-ventrally, not touching the inner paraphallic wall; juxta demarcated.