Nephochaetopteryx, Townsend, 1934

Genus Nephochaetopteryx View in CoL

Male with one or two proclinate fronto-orbital setae; notopleuron with subprimary setae; postalar wall setulose; metasternum setulose; hind coxa with strong setae posteriorly*; mid-tibia with neither antero-dorsal nor antero-ventral setae*; male mid-femur with a ctenidium of rounded spines (circular cross section); wing vein R 1 setulose dorsally; third costal sector of wing bare ventrally; wing fumose between apical part of veins R 2 + 3 and C*; male terminalia red or black; male abdominal ST4 with a dense patch of erect black setae near posterior margin; phallus with basi- and distiphallus connected by a desclerotized strip; vesical arm-shaped lever not elongated, strongly angled in lateral view; vesica with distal section ornamented; acrophallus formed of a capitis, hillae, lateral styli and a median stylus; lateral styli with hillae directed proximally, sclerotized and long spoon-shaped; juxta hood-shaped, ornamented, smooth proximally and wrinkled distally; puparial spiracles in a shallow depression.