Myiomyrmica fenestrata ( Coquillett, 1900 )

Cephalia fenestrata Coquillett, 1900 View in CoL

Valid name. Myiomyrmica fenestrata ( Coquillett, 1900) View in CoL (Ulidiidae).

Cephalia fenestrata Coquillett, 1900: 24 (Kansas) View in CoL .

Myiomyrmica fenestrata: Steyskal, 1961: 404 View in CoL ; 1965: 646; Wallace, 2021: 9, 14, 69.

Material. Type. Holotype ♀: U.S.A.: “Onaga // Kansas ”, [Baker leg.], “ Cephalia // fenestrata // Coq.”, “Type // No. 4474 // U.S.N.M.” ( USNM), (examined) .

Remarks: Steyskal (1961) established a separate monotypic genus for this species in his key to the Nearctic genera of Platystomatidae and Otitidae , with a short diagnosis in a key couplet based on the frons being entirely shining and the wing narrow with a pale brownish disk and a whitish spot. Judging from Steyskal (1961: Fig. 5 View Fig ), it also differs by the male epandrium bearing trilobate surstyli lacking large prensisetae. It shares its long antenna, very wide, subtriangular palp, bulging upper part of the occiput and lack of proepisternal seta with Cephalia , Myrmecothea and Tritoxa , these synapomorphies apparently supporting monophyly of a lineage represented by these four genera.