Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981

(Figs. 2H, 3G, 6D–E, 13)

Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981: 161 . Holotype male, COSTA RICA: Guanacaste (CAS). Coville et al., 2000: 28, 39–41, 47; Evenhuis and Greathead, 1999: 209.

Type material examined. Holotype: COSTA RICA: Guanacaste: 15 km SW Bagaces [10.53, -85.25], Comelco, 25.ii.1975 (R. Coville coll.), 1 male (CAS) [California Academy of Sciences type n° 13728, trap n° M402C29C3, emerged 19.iii.1975, Host: Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) tenoctitlan]; paratypes: COSTA RICA: Heredia: La Selva, 4 km SE Puerto Viejo [10.47, -84.02], 26.vii.1980 (R.E. Coville coll.), 1 female (CAS) [ex Trap-nest coll., emerged 21.viii.1980, Trap nº C201Fcl]; idem, 16.vii.1980 (R.E. Coville coll.), 1 female (USNM) [ex Trap-nest coll., emerged 17.viii.1980, Trap nº CIFC 3]; Guanacaste: 4 km NW Cañas [10.43, -85.10], La Pacifica, 14.ii.1975, (R. Coville coll.), 1 male (CAS) [emerged 10.iii.1975 –trap nº M507cl].

Diagnosis. Lepidophora trypoxylona is similar to L. culiciformis (see diagnosis of L. culiciformis) but differs in having frons with spatulate dark brown, translucent and white scales; scape and pedicel with short and thin dark brown bristles; basicosta with tuft of long brown and white scales; coxa II with long light and dark hairs; coxa III with bristles on anterior and posterodorsal surfaces; femur I with apical bristles on dorsal and anterodorsal surfaces; femur III with brown and white scales on posterior surface; anterior margin of abdominal segment I with long dark brown hairs; and tergite VI with central tuft of short and spatulate white scales.