Schizoceratomyia

Body length: 4–9 mm. Broadly built flies with long antennae (bifrucate in male) and oval abdomen. Head wider than thorax. Face slightly convex or medially concave; wider than an eye. Mouth parts weakly developed, small; oral opening small and round, with lateral margins not produced. Vertex more or less flat, not strongly produced or convex. Frontal ocellus normal, split in two medially or absent. Occiput ventrally narrow, dorsally weakly widened. Eye bare. Eyes in male not or only slightly converging at level of frons, with mutual distance 3–4 times the width of antennal fossa. Antennal fossa about as wide as high. Antenna longer than distance between antennal fossa and anterior oral margin. Basoflagellomere longer than scape, bifurcate in male, in some species also in female; both branches long pilose, especially on inner side; in one (undescribed) species occupied with more than 20 long, narrow tubercles. Arista in male well-developed (longer than pedicel) or reduced to a small stump (shorter than pedicel); in female well-developed, sometimes almost as long as basoflagellomere and thickened. Postpronotum pilose or bare. Scutellum semicircular; without calcars. Anepisternum convex, sometimes with weak sulcus in dorsal 1/4; pilose on dorsal 2/3 to 3/4. Anepimeron pilose on dorsal 3/4 to 1/4, or only along posterior margin. Katepimeron convex; bare; smooth. Wing: vein R4+5 without posterior appendix; vein M1 straight and perpendicular to vein R4+5, or with weak outward angle in anterior 1/2; postero-apical corner of cell r4+5 rectangular to widely rounded, with or without small appendix; crossvein r-m located between basal 1/8 and 1/4 of cell dm. Abdomen dorsoventrally flattened; more oval, with largest width at tergite 3; 1.5-2 times as long as wide. Tergites 3 and 4 fused. Male genitalia: phallus furcate near apex, straight or apically bent ventrad, projecting not or hardly beyond apex of hypandrium; hypandrium with bulb-like base; epandrium without ventrolateral ridge; surstylus unfurcate, elongate or wide.

Described species: 4. Neoptropical. A few undescribed species are known to the first author.