Titanogrypa, Townsend, 1917

Genus Titanogrypa View in CoL

Postalar wall setulose; scutellum with a patch of whitish hair-like setulae on the lateral margins (except in subgenus Sarconeiva Lopes and the species T. (Cucullomyia) luculenta [Lopes, 1938], Titanogrypa (Cucullomyia) larvicida [Lopes, 1935] and Titanogrypa (Cucullomyia) ecuatoriana [Lopes, 1988]); wing vein R 1 setulose dorsally (only in subgenus Sarconeiva ); wing vein R 4 + 5 with dorsal setulae reaching crossvein r-m (only in subgenus Sarconeiva ); third costal sector of wing bare ventrally; male mid-femur without a ctenidium; male hind tibia without an apical postero-ventral seta; male abdominal T5 with rounded margin ventrally (only in subgenera Airypel Dodge and Cucullomyia Roback); male abdominal ST5 cleft with subparallel sides; male ST5 with one or two rows of short and strong setae along posterior margin (only in subgenera Airypel and Cucullomyia ); cercal prong with apex rounded and narrow in dorsal view; cercal prong straight or almost straight; surstylus equal to or longer than cercus (only in subgenus Sarconeiva ); surstylus with an apical patch of microsetulae (only in subgenus Sarconeiva ); phallus with a distinct hinge between basi- and distiphallus; basiphallus long and slender; basiphallus with a dorsal hump at junction with distiphallus (except in subgenus Titanogrypa ); basiphallus laterally compressed (only in subgenera Airypel and Cucullomyia ); basiphallus with a dorsal longitudinal keel (only in subgenera Airypel and Cucullomyia ); vesica bulbous; distiphallus not surrounding the acrophallus, styli entirely exposed (except in subgenus Cucullomyia ); acrophallus formed of a capitis, lateral styli and a median stylus; lateral styli developed, with a sperm opening (except in subgenera Sarconeiva and Titanogrypa ); capitis wide and denticulated; median stylus with a distinct opening; median stylus straight; median stylus short (greatly elongated in subgenus Cucullomyia ); juxta Y-shaped in frontal view (only in subgenus Airypel ); juxta partially fused to acrophallic structures (except in subgenus Cucullomyia ); juxta straight.