Apotropina Hendel 1907

Apotropina Hendel, 1907 Ectropa Schiner, 1868: 242 (preoccupied. Wallengren, 1863). Type species, Ectropa viduata Schiner, 1868 (monotypy). Ref.: Sabrosky & Paganelli, 1984: 3. Apotropina Hendel, 1907: 98 (nom. nov. for Ectropa Schiner, 1868). Type species, Ectropa viduata Schiner, 1868 (automatic). Lasiopleura Becker, 1919: 130. Type species, Oscinis longepilosa Strobl, 1893 (monotypy). Pseudohippelates Malloch, 1913: 261. Type species, Hippelates capax Coquillett, 1898 (by original designation). Omochaeta Duda, 1930: 58. Type species, Oscinosoma specularifrons Enderlein, 1911 (subsequent designation, Sabrosky, 1941: 759). Identification key to the Colombian species of Apotropina: 1. Scutum and scutellum shiny; ocellar triangle reaching ~ ½ length of frons; body length ~ 1.3 mm; wing fumose; fore coxa yellow; gena not higher than half postpedicel height..................................... A. infumata (Becker, 1916) - Scutum and scutellum pruinose; ocellar triangle reaching ~ ⅔ length of frons; body length 2–3.5 mm; other combination of characters........................................................................................... 2 2. Fore coxa dark; tibial organ dark gray; wing hyaline; hind tibia with apical spur straight and shorter than tibial width; surstylus narrow with apex brownish................................................................ A. similis sp. nov. - Fore coxa yellow; other combination of characters........................................................... 3 3. Wing fumose, gena ~ ⅓ height of postpedicel and entirely yellow; hind tibial spur indistinct; tibial organ brown-yellowish; male cercus with setae longer than surstylus, surstylus wide with yellow apex.......................... A. longicerci sp. nov. - Wing hyaline, gena less than ⅓ height of postpedicel and posteriorly dark, hind tibia with apical spur straight and shorter than tibia width; male cercus with setae shorter than surstylus, surstylus narrow with brownish apex......... A. ruidosa sp. nov.