Therevidae (Cannings, 2018)

Key to genera of Therevidae View in CoL View at ENA known in British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska

This key is adapted from Irwin & Lyneborg (1981), Webb & Irwin (1999), and Webb & Metz (2003) using non-genitalic characters. A few couplets require the differentiation of the sexes. The compound eyes of male therevids in the region treated usually touch dorsally, although in Tabuda and Dichoglena they are narrowly separate, no farther apart than the width of the ocellar tubercle. They are much more widely separate in all females. Females have distinctive acanthophorite spines at the tip of the abdomen; these are short, truncate, and arranged in two fanshaped groups. In the male genitalia, the dorsal, plate-like epandrium is usually apically bifid with the lateral apices pointed and enclosing the often-prominent cerci. Genitalia, especially in males, is sometimes difficult to see because of dense setae.

1 Midcoxae with long hairs on posterior surface.............................................................. 2

- Midcoxae bare on posterior surface, or with only a few appressed hairs......................................... 10

2 Prosternum with hairs in and around central depression....................................................... 3

- Central depression of prosternum bare.................................................................... 7

3 Lateral area of face, or at least upper part, bare............................................................. 4

- Lateral area of face, or at least upper part, with long hairs, sometimes dense...................................... 6

4 Scape wider and longer than first flagellomere.............................................................. 5

- Scape equal to or narrower and shorter than first flagellomere............................... Cliorismia bussi (James) View in CoL

5 Females with setae covering entire frons; males only distinguishable through genitalic comparison................................................................................................. Dialineura gorodkovi Zaitzev View in CoL

- Females with setae covering only dorsal two-thirds of frons; males only distinguishable through genitalic comparison...................................................................................... Pallicephala View in CoL (3 species)

6 Male abdomen entirely whitish haired. Female frons with dark or dull, pale pubescence, never with shining calli............................................................................................ Acrosathe View in CoL (2 species)

- Male abdomen with at least a few black hairs. Female frons usually with shiny patch or large, shiny calli................................................................................................... Thereva View in CoL (19 species)

7 Scape distinctly longer and wider than first flagellomere. Head strongly projecting anteriorly..... Tabuda planiceps (Loew) View in CoL

- Scape not longer and wider than first flagellomere. Head not strongly projecting anteriorly.......................... 8

8 Face with black band of pubescence extending from antennal sockets to eye margin......... Dichoglena nigrina (Krober) View in CoL

- Face without black band of pubescence extending from antennal sockets to eye margin............................. 9

9 Parafacial hairs present............................................................... Spiriverpa View in CoL (2 species)

- Parafacial area bare.......................................................... Pandivirilia conspicua (Walker) View in CoL

10 Prosternum with hairs in and around central depression............................................................................................... Ozodiceromyia View in CoL (2 species, plus 6 undescribed species known in collections)

- Central depression of prosternum bare............................................... Psilocephala vicina Walker View in CoL