Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Prosena siberita? 2014-12-12 (= Prosenoides flavipes)

Posted by John Carr on 04-01-2015 13:31
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Zeegers wrote:
Dear John

You are right with Dexiini. It doesn't look like Prosena siberita to me.
You have your own longtongues in the new world: Mochlostoma if I remember correctly. I would try to look there.


Theo


Mochlostoma would be an etymologically justified but code-unjustified emendation of Mocholsoma B&B 1889.

The native American long-beaked Dexiini I know of are Prosenoides (with upcurved proboscis) and Mochlosoma. There is also Ptilodexia which is supposedly distinguished from Mochlosoma mainly by having proboscis shorter than head height.