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Lenkokroeberia Prado

Description

Lenkokroeberia Prado

Lenkokroeberia Prado, 1965, 261. Type-species: Lenkokroeberia chryserea Prado, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Frons broad, sunken; ocellar and fronto-orbital bristles absent; postvertical, inner and outer vertical bristles present; face with rounded tubercle; arista bare; 1 postpronotal bristle; posterior thoracic spiracle with 1–3 bristles; scutellum weakly concave dorsally, setulose on disc with 3–4 pairs of discal bristles, in addition to apical bristles; hind tibiae strongly flattened.

Comments. This genus contains two described species, L. chryserea Prado known from Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Brazil (Ibáñez-Bernal & Hernández-Ortiz, 2010), and L. ciliata (Williston) recorded from Brazil and Bolivia (Prado 1965).

Notes

Published as part of Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio & Hernández-Ortiz, Vicente, 2012, The new genus Acrocephalomyia, and a new species of Ropalomera from Costa Rica, with additional records for other Mesoamerican species (Diptera: Ropalomeridae), pp. 553-569 in Zootaxa 3478 on page 566, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282346

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ropalomeridae
Genus
Lenkokroeberia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Prado
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Prado, A. P., do. (1965) (1966) Segunda contribuicao ao conhecimento da familia Rhopalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae). Studia Entomologica, 8, 209 - 268.
  • Ibanez-Bernal, S. & Hernandez-Ortiz, V. (2010) Ropalomeridae (Ropalomerid flies), pp. 1025 - 1030. In: Brown, B. V. et al. (Eds.). Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 2. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 728 pp.