Epistoma

Word EPISTOMA
Character 8
Hyphenation e pis to ma
Pronunciations N/A

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Peristoma - ium: the border of the mouth or oral margin in Diptera; sometimes used as: = epistoma: q.v. Peristome: a membranous tissue surrounding the mouth parts at base, and forming the true ventral wall of the head. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Clypeus: that portion of the head before or below the front, to which the labrum is attached anteriorly; in Diptera often visible below the margin of the mouth in front, as a more or less visor-shaped piece: = epistoma. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

_Antennæ_ epistoma non attingentes; articulus tertius longiusculus, linearis, apice conicus; arista subpubescens. ❋ Various (N/A)

Antennæ nearly reaching the epistoma; third joint long, linear, conical at the tip; arista pubescent. ❋ Various (N/A)

_ Head and thorax with bright silvery tomentum, facialia without bristles, epistoma slightly prominent; eyes bare; mouth black, testaceous towards the base, full as long as the thorax; antennæ tawny, not reaching the epistoma, arista plumose; legs black, coxæ and femora testaceous; wings grey, veins black. ❋ Various (N/A)

Face flat, brightly gilded; epistoma not prominent; mystax with a few white bristles; mouth black; antennæ ferruginous, black towards the tips, longer than the breadth of the head; third joint linear, longer than the first and the second together; pectus with three hoary bands; abdomen subclavate, nearly twice the length of the thorax; ❋ Various (N/A)

Vertex and mouth piceous; epistoma with a piceous line on each side; third joint of the antennæ black above; abdomen black along each side and at the tip, and with two black bands which are angular in front; wings cinereous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Antennæ small; third joint elongate-conical, not extending more than half the length to the epistoma; arista plumose. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head transverse, hardly broader than the thorax, with two erect setæ on the hind part of the vertex; face vertical; epistoma slightly prominent. ❋ Various (N/A)

Antennæ not reaching the epistoma; third joint linear, rather long, conical at the tip; arista somewhat pubescent. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head nearly round; front subquadrate; face short; epistoma very prominent. ❋ Various (N/A)

The mandibles are long and slender, ending in three or four teeth, and with the other appendages of the mouth are concealed within the head, "only the tips of the palpi (and of the maxillæ when these are opened) projecting a very little beyond the rounded entire margin of the epistoma," according to Haliday. ❋ Unknown (1872)

Head piceous, whitish about the eyes; epistoma somewhat prominent; antennæ reddish, third joint somewhat lanceolate, piceous towards the tip; arista bare; thorax with a cinereous stripe; sides and pectus also cinereous; abdomen with two cinereous bands; legs black; wings limpid white, slightly cinereous towards the base, with three black bands, the first abbreviated hindward, the second and third very broad; veins black, discal transverse vein curved inward, parted by much less than its length from the border and by a little less than its length from the præbrachial transverse; halteres whitish. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head with a black dot above the antennæ and one on each side of the epistoma; thorax with the fore part of the disk black, and with two hindward black stripes; fore tibiæ and fore tarsi piceous; hind tibiæ somewhat piceous; wings slightly brownish, with two blackish bands, the first on the præbrachial transverse vein, abbreviated hindward, the second on the discal transverse vein, abbreviated in front, intermediate space limpid, veins testaceous, black towards the tips; halteres pale testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Face silvery white; antennæ pale testaceous, third joint long, linear, extending to the epistoma; thorax with black stripes, and on each side with a broad testaceous stripe; abdomen dull testaceous; legs piceous; femora black, fore tibiæ testaceous; wings grey, with a lurid tinge towards the costa; veins testaceous, discal transverse vein very slightly curved inward, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by a little more than its length from the præbrachial transverse; alulæ whitish; halteres testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)

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