taxonID	type	description	language	source
03AB754CFFB6E7475385FCA14B92FBE4.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. [This only applies to South American species] Eyes bare. Interfrontal setae present. Eyes separated in males by at least the diameter of the anterior ocellus, in females slightly wider. Face constricted at the lower part of the head. Parafacialia projected anteriorly, at least with the same width as the postpedicel. Parafacialia with a dark spot at level of the antennae. Thorax dorsally with 1 – 5 longitudinal dark vittae. Prealar setae usually present. Scutellum ventrally with fine and short setulae. Prosternum bare. Mid tibiae with one ventral seta in females, absent in males. Abdomen oblong-ovate. Male distiphallus usually with free paraphallic processes. Females with abdominal segment 7 usually with a continuous band of setulae on tergite and sternite, extending on the lateroventral membranes, almost forming a ring. Female cerci usually with strong and recurved spines dorsally.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFB6E7475385FCA14B92FBE4.taxon	discussion	Taxonomy The following commons characters omitted from the descriptions of Leucophora species (unless otherwise stated): Eyes without pubescence, dichoptic; face flat to slightly convex ventrally; arista with its third article thickened at base; 3 pairs of presut acr s, the middle pair longest; 2 + 3 dc s with short setula / e in between; posthumeral (intralar presutural) 1 seta; presutural supra-alar 1 seta; postpronotal 2 setae, outer seta longer or with similar length; notopleural 2 setae, anterior one longer; postsutural intralar 2 setae; postsutural supra-alar 1 seta; basal scutellar 1 seta; discal scutellar 1 seta; scutellum with 2 long marginal pairs of setae and 1 pair of shorter discal, finely pubescent ventrally; prosternum bare; proepisternum and anepimeron bare; fore femora with a complete row of setae on pv and pd, female with av setae absent; fore tibiae with 1 ad and pv setae, apical setae on d, pv surfaces; mid tibiae with apical setae on a, ad, d, pd, pv, v surfaces; hind tibiae with 1 apical av, ad and d setae; basitarsomere of fore and hind leg with a long ventral basal seta; pulvilli small in female; processes of sternite 5 in male with outer lateral setae become progressively longer distally; additional ventral sclerite between synsternite 6 + 7 and hypandrium absent; hypandrium with pedestal-like posterior extension; processus longi absent; inner basal surfaces of surstylus fused with epandrium as well as with sides of cercal plate. Three spermathecae longer than wide, of the same size, with striate surface.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFB4E74D5385FEE14BBDFCA5.taxon	description	Figs. 1 – 5	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFB4E74D5385FEE14BBDFCA5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora andicola can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: male with five longitudinal brown vittae on thorax, surstylus expanded at middle (in posterior view), acrophallus downward and distal free paraphallic processes acute and slightly divergent; females with longitudinal vittae on dorsocentral setae less visible, tergites 6 – 7 wide and almost connected on posterior margin, sternite 7 long.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFB4E74D5385FEE14BBDFCA5.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♀ (OUMNH). Chile (not observed). Other material: 13 ♂, 7 ♀. ARGENTINA: Neuquén, Lago Lácar, Hua Hum [- 40.11775, - 71.66268] [909 m. a. s. l.], 11 – 16 - XII- 1946, Hayward col. det. F. Snyder 1954, 1 ♀ (IFML DIP 0889); PN Lanín, L. Curruhue, Arroyo Los Pinos, 1090 m [m. a. s. l.] - 39.87674, - 71.45338, transecta, 14 - XII- 2013, Olea col. 4 ♂ (MACN _ En 39851, 39862, 39863, 39864); San Martín de los Andes, Truram Kura [- 40.15721, - 71.352444] [1000 m. a. s. l.] 14 – 15 - XI- 1985, M. & P. Gentili col. 1 ♂ (IFML), same data except, 17 – 18 - XI- 1985, 2 ♂ (Lillo). Chubut, PN Los Alerces, Puerto Mermoud, 521 m [m. a. s. l.], - 42.723190, - 71.748825, 25 - X- 2014, Torreta col. 3 ♂ (MACN _ En 36239, 36240, 39867), same data except, Patitucci col. 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 36241); PN Los Alerces, Arroyo Torcido, L. Futalaufquen, 520 [m. a. s. l.], - 42.76131, - 71.75058, 26 - X- 2014, Torreta col. 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 36242, 36246), same data except, Mulieri col. 2 ♂ 3 ♀ (MACN _ En 36243, 36244, 36245, 39865, 39866). Río Negro, PN Nahuel Huapi, Lago Hess, Malaise, DWN- 214, 767 [m. a. s. l.], - 41.36, - 76.33, 29 - X – 23 - XII- 2008, Garré & M. de Oca col. 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 39857).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFB4E74D5385FEE14BBDFCA5.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 1 – 3) Body length, 5.7 – 7.0 mm, wing length 4.3 – 5.2 mm. Coloration (Fig. 1). Head black with silvery greyish pruinosity; frontal vitta black with whitish pruinosity (Fig. 1 B). Parafacialia, gena, and face with whitish pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting black patch from level of insertion of antennae to level of postpedicel tip (Fig. 1 C), genae with a dark brown to black patch from the vibrissal angle extending to behind the eye. Antennae black, scapus with dark brown mark on dorsal surface; postpedicel with brown pruinosity; arista dark brown with darker base. Prementum dark brown. Palpi brown with lighter bases. Thorax black with brownish-grey pruinosity; with five longitudinal dark brown vittae (Fig. 1 D), specimens from PN Lanín are darker in coloration (Fig. 1 E), central vitta filling the space between acrostichal setae, slightly widened toward the scutoscutellar suture, not extending over the scutellum, a pair of very narrow lateral vittae along dorsocentral setae, more evident seen from behind. A pair of outer lateral vittae filling the space from the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural and posteriorly divided, one stripe following the intralar postsutural and the other stripe following the prealar and supra-alar postsutural. Disc of scutellum with brownish pruinosity. Pleura with dark brown patches on anepisternum and katepisternum (Fig. 1 A). Legs dark brown. Mid and hind tibiae slightly darker. Tarsomeres darkened. Pulvilli brown. Wing membrane hyaline with a light brown tinge, veins brown. Calypters light brown. Haltere brown with darker base. Abdomen black with brownish-grey pruinosity, with a narrow longitudinal dark brown to black vitta (Fig. 1 F), specimens from PN Lanin with dark gray pruinosity (Fig. 1 G); in profile (Fig. 1 H), tergites 3 – 5 with dark brown marks towards anterior margin on lateral surfaces. Marginal setae with darker bases. Sternite 5 dark brown. Syntergosternite 7 + 8 and epandrium black with greyish pruinosity. Surstylus brown. Cerci dark brown. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.5 x width of anterior ocellus, much widening anteriorly, with scattered short setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 0.7 – 1.4 x width of anterior ocellus, rather widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 1.8 – 2.6 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 1 B). 6 – 8 pairs of fr s, the uppermost pair fine and placed at the level of anterior ocellus, with setulae in between (Fig. 1 C). infr s very short, setulaelike. oc s strong and longer than infr s; ocellar triangle with 3 – 4 additional pairs of setulae; poc s more the half the length of oc s. i vt s slightly shorter than oc s, slightly convergent; o vt s pair very thin, shorter than i vt s and slightly proclinate. Postpedicel 1.4 – 2.0 x the pedicel length; arista 1.6 – 2.0 x the postpedicel length, pubescent, longest hairs as long as the basal diameter of arista. Parafacials 0.2 – 0.4 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.2 – 0.3 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile slightly beyond level of frontal angle (Fig. 1 C). Prementum length from insertion of palpi to apex 0.4 – 0.6 x the head height. Palpus 0.3 – 0.4 x the head height, filiform. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 – 7 pairs of psut acr s, prescutellar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Figs. 1 D, E). Prealar seta almost as long as notopleural anterior. 5 – 6 anepst s. 1 – 2 + 2 kepst s, the lower anterior slightly longer than the surrounding setulae (Fig. 1 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of thin av setulae on basal half. Mid femur with 2 – 3 long av setae basal half; 2 – 4 pv setae on basal third; a row of strong a setae on basal half; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad, 1 – 2 pd setae and p setae. Hind femur with a complete row of av setae, 2 – 3 longer setae on distal third; a complete row of ad setae, but basally displaced from the anterior surface; 2 subapical d setae; 1 – 2 subapical p setae, a complete row of pv setae. Hind tibia with 2 – 3 av setae; 2 – 4 ad setae; 2 (rarely 3) pd setae; p setae indistinguishable from the surrounding setulae. Abdomen. Tergites 2 – 5 with lateral marginal setae stronger than median marginal (Figs. 1 F – H). Sternite 1 slightly more than 2 x wider than long, with long setulae almost completely covering the posterior half, longest setulae as long as sternite width. Sternites 2 – 4 almost as long as wide. Sternite 2 slightly narrowed posteriorly, sternites 3 – 4 slightly narrowed anteriorly; sternites densely setulose, longest setulae longer than sternite length. Sternite 5 (Fig. 2 A) slightly wider than long, anteriorly narrowed, anterolateral corners slightly divergent, anterior margin almost straight; processes slightly longer than basal region, parallel sided distally, apex rounded, basal inner margin with scattered short and thin setulae, distal inner margin with short and erect setulae, outer surface with long setae, longest setae almost as long as processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus medially widened, apex rounded and slightly divergent (Fig. 2 B); in profile slightly straight, outer margins with a couple of setulae at mid-length, basal half wide, tapered distally, with short setulae towards lateral surface, with a longitudinal fringe of minute setulae on ventral surface (Fig. 2 C). Cercal plate slightly longer than wide, about 0.5 x the surstylus length, apex widely notched; in profile, dorsal surface curved, tip rounded; covered with long setulae, apically with 3 – 4 pairs of very long and strong setae and laterally 3 pairs of long setae on basal half, longest setae about 2 x cercal plate length. Pregonite (Figs. 2 E; 3 B) 2 x longer than wide, about 0.5 x the postgonite length, distally slender, with a seta toward distal ventral surface, without sensilla (Fig. 3 B). Postgonite longer than wide, dorsal margin slightly concave, distally narrow and slightly curved, with 1 seta on ventral surface, with some sensilla on outer surface. Phallapodeme (Fig. 2 D) in profile with basal half narrow and sinuous, distally expanded with unpigmented margin; epiphallus with rounded apex and slightly directed ventrally; distiphallus (Fig. 3 A, D) in profile, dorsal sclerotization almost straight, with short and apical free paraphallic processes, divergent (Figs. 2 D, F; 3 C – E), specimens from PN Lanin with apex of distiphallus slightly down curved; acrophallus unpigmented, in profile trumpet-shaped and curved ventrally, in dorsal view narrow and pointed. Female (Figs. 4 – 5) Body length 5.4 – 7.3 mm, wing length 4.1 – 5.4 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Fig. 4). Ocellar triangle with brownish pruinosity. Fronto-orbital plate dorsally with brown pruinosity from above (Fig. 4 B). Parafacial and genal patches connected on anterior margin of parafacialia, parafacial patch anteriorly dark brown to black posteriorly (Fig. 4 C). Thorax. Vittae on dorsocentral setae weakly visible (Fig. 4 D), major setae with darker bases. Anepisternum with a dark patch towards upper margin (Fig. 4 A). Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 1.2 – 1.8 x width of anterior ocellus; frontal vitta at narrowest point 0.8 – 2.5 x width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 4 – 5 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 4 B). infr s longer than male. Ocellar triangle with additional setae longer than male and with short scattered setulae. Postpedicel 1.7 – 2.1 x the pedicel length; arista 1.4 – 2.2 x the postpedicel length. Parafacials 0.3 – 0.5 x width of eye (Fig. 4 C). Thorax. Notopleural anterior seta slightly longer than posterior. Prealar seta slightly shorter than notopleural anterior (Fig. 4 D). Legs. Mid femur with 2 av setae on basal fourth; a setae not as strong as male; 3 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad seta; 2 pd and p setae. Hind femur with a row of av setae on distal half; ad setae not displaced on anterior surface; 3 pd setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae less developed than male (Fig. 4 E). Sternite 1 3 x wider than long, setulose. Sternite 2 almost as long as wide, anteriorly widened, with scattered setulae. Sternites 3 – 4 1.2 – 1.3 x longer than wide, posteriorly narrowed, setulose, with longer setulae on lateral and posterolateral margins. Sternite 5 almost 2 x longer than wide, strongly narrowed basally, with scattered setulae. Ovipositor (Fig. 5). Tergite 6 represented by a pair of plates narrowly separated posteriorly, longer than wide, anteriorly slightly divergent and tapered, subtruncate (Fig. 5 A); posterior margin weakly pigmented, with a row of setulae which extends onto lateroventral membranes forming with the setulae of sternite 6 a more or less continuous band around the segment. Spiracles 6 th and 7 th both situated in membrane (Fig. 5 B), 6 th almost in line with the anterior margin of tergite 6, 7 th situated below posteroventral corner of tergite 6, just behind the posterior margin. Tergite 7 similar to tergite 6 but parallel side and slightly expanded on basal inner margin, slightly shorter than tergite 6, anterior and lateral margins strongly pigmented, setation (chaetotaxy) as tergite 6. Tergite 8 widely divided into a pair of strongly sclerotized and pigmented elongate plates but continuous along posterior margin (Fig. 5 A), longer than tergite 7 and as long as tergite 6; in dorsal view, lateral plates tapered anteriorly; in profile plates of parallel side and anterior margin subtruncate (Fig. 5 C); posterior margin with a row of short setulae. When fully extended, anterior tips of tergites 6 – 8 and sternite 7 remain hidden in the anterior segments (Figs. 5 A, B). Epiproct almost 3 x wider than long, wider anteriorly, posteriorly notched, with a couple of setae posteriorly, a pair longer laterally. Sternite 6 1.3 x longer than wide, shorter than tergite 6, tapered basally and apically, with irregular margins, posterior half setulose with a pair of long lateral setae (Fig. 5 B). Sternite 7 1.6 x longer than wide, longer than tergite 7, anterior and posterior margin tapered and slightly rounded, posterior half setulose. Sternite 8 represented by a pair of small scarcely sclerotized and unpigmented plates towards posterior margin, bearing a couple of setulae. Hypoproct 1.5 x wider than long, posterior margin narrowly rounded, densely setulose, with a fringe on long lateral and posterolateral setae. Cerci longer than hypoproct, in dorsal view slightly expanded at middle and tapered posteriorly, dorsally with 2 pairs of recurved spines (longer than cerci height) (Fig. 5 C), towards dorsal and outer lateral surfaces with smaller spines. Three spermathecae (Fig. 5 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFB4E74D5385FEE14BBDFCA5.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Males of L. andicola is morphologically similar to L. curruhue sp. nov., in pattern coloration, shape and setation of gonites, and the structure of distiphallus and acrophallus, but differ in having the paraphallic processes almost straight with apex slightly divergent, meanwhile L. curruhue sp. nov., has darker coloration and the paraphallic processes downcurved. Female ovipositor in L. andicola resembles those in L. chilensis and L. tacuil sp. nov., but differs from both in the shape of sternites 6 – 7, additionally, differs from L. chilensis in having both pairs of spiracles 6 th – 7 th on membrane of segment 6. Bigot (1885) described L. andicola from 1 male and 1 female from Chile. Later, Stein (1917), examined type specimens and noticed that both Bigot specimens are 2 females of different species, one specimen corresponds to the description of L. andicola and the other specimen is similar but Stein could not say with certainty to which genus it belongs. Malloch (1934) gave a brief male and female description with illustration of male sternites 4 – 5 and hypopygium [cerci, surstylus and distiphallus].	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFB4E74D5385FEE14BBDFCA5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro (Malloch 1934 )), CHILE (Bigot 1885; Malloch 1934) (Fig. 53 A).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFBFE74E5385FF504908FC7D.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / f 32 d 04 f 4 - 0 b 61 - 4776 - 983 d-f 4258 ad 930 af Figs. 6 – 8	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFBFE74E5385FF504908FC7D.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora calilegua sp. nov. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: arista plumose, 7 pairs of fr s, vibrissal angle reaching almost the frontal angle in profile, longitudinal vittae on thorax and vitta on abdomen wide, pregonite small with two setae and distiphallus with two pairs of free paraphallic processes.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFBFE74E5385FF504908FC7D.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (IFML): “ R. Argentina / Jujuy / P. N. Calilegua / 4 km de la Mesada de La / Colmena / 25 - IX- 1995 / col. C. Gramajo [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2486 [white label, printed] ”; “ Holotype ♂ / Leucophora calilegua [red label, printed] ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFBFE74E5385FF504908FC7D.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 6 – 8) Body length 5.6 mm, wing length 5.1 mm. Coloration (Fig. 6). Head black, with whitish-grey pruinosity; frontal vitta black, with white-yellowish pruinosity (Figs. 6 B, D). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia and genae black to dark brown with silvery whitish pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting black patch from level of insertion of antennae to level of the tip of the postpedicel (Fig. 6 C), genae with a black to dark brown patch from the lower margin of the eye to the genal border. Face black to dark brown, with densely whitish pruinosity. Antenna dark brown, lower margin of scapus and pedicel lighter; arista light brown with dark brown base. Prementum dark brown. Palpi dark brown with lighter base. Thorax black, with greyish pruinosity, with three broad longitudinal dark brown to brown vittae (Fig. 6 D), central vitta from the anterior acrostichal presutural setae and filling the space almost between the dorsocentral setae and continuing over the posterior margin of scutellum, lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and intralar postsuturals and the presutural and supra-alar setae (Fig. 6 A). Anepisternum with a large brown patch reaching the upper margin (Fig. 6 A). Legs brown, coxa and trochanters lighter, femora darker. Pulvilli light brown. Wing membrane hyaline with a light brown tinge, veins brown. Calypters slightly whitish. Halteres brown with darkened bases. Abdomen black with grey-silvery pruinosity, with a broad longitudinal dark brown vitta (Fig. 6 E). Posterior margins of tergites 2 – 5 with a brown transverse band. Marginal setae of tergites with darker bases. Sternite 5, surstylus and cerci dark brown. Syntergosternite 7 + 8, epandrium dark gray with gray pruinosity. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.4 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, with a few scattered short setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1 x width of anterior ocellus, widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 2 x width of anterior ocellus (Figs. 6 B, D). 7 pairs of fr s (Fig. 6 C). infr s shorter than the shortest fr s, very thin. oc s broken. Ocellar triangle with 2 additional pairs of setulae, poc s slightly longer than ocellar additional setae. Postpedicel 1.5 x the pedicel length; arista length 2.2 x the postpedicel length, plumose longest hairs 0.6 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.3 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.2 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile almost reaching the level of frontal angle (Fig. 6 C). Prementum 0.6 x the head height. Palpus 0.5 x the head height, filiform. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 – 6 pairs of short psut acr s, prescutellar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 6 D). Prealar seta present. 5 – 6 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, the lower anterior slightly longer the surrounding setulae (Fig. 6 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of fine av setulae on basal third. Fore tibia with 1 ad and pv setae. Mid femur with 1 short av seta on basal fifth; a row of strong a setae on basal half; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad seta, 2 pd and p setae. Hind femur with a complete row of av, ad, and p setae, ad setae longer at distal half; 2 subapical d setae, 1 subapical p seta. Hind tibia with 4 av and p setae, 3 – 4 ad setae, 3 pd setae. Abdomen. Tergites 2 – 5 with lateral marginal setae stronger than median marginal (Figs. 6 E). Lateral median setae on tergite 5 strong. Sternite 1 almost 3 x wider than long, setulose over the whole surface. Sternite 2 longer than wide, setulose. Sternite 3 1.5 x longer than wide, strongly tapered towards anterior and posterior margins. Sternite 4 longer than wide, slightly tapered toward anterior margin. Sternites 3 – 4 strongly setulose, longest setae on lateral margins, and as long as sternite length. Sternite 5 (Fig. 7 A) almost as long as wide, slightly constricted before middle, narrowed anteriorly, anterior margin widely rounded; processes shorter than basal region, slightly tapered towards apex slightly divergent, with rounded apex, inner basal margin with scattered thin setulae, inner distal margin with short and erect setulae, outer surface with long and strong setae, longest setae longer than processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus narrow and tapered towards apex, slightly concave on basal half, with rounded tip (Fig. 7 B); in profile slightly incurved, apically tapered with rounded tip; covered with scattered setulae on basal half towards the outer margin, with a longitudinal fringe of long setulae ventrally towards middle (Fig. 7 C). Cercal plate about 2 x longer than wide, more than a half the surstylus length, tapered on distal half with rounded apex; in profile with dorsal surface mainly straight and slightly up-curved distally, tip rounded; covered with long setulae especially on lateral margin, with 2 pairs of outstandingly lateral long setae, one pair on basal half, the other pair subapical, longest setae slightly 2 x cercal plate length. Pregonite (Figs. 7 E; 8 B) wider than long, almost 0.3 x the postgonite length, with 2 setae, 1 dorsally and 1 ventroapically, without sensilla. Postgonite about 2 x longer than wide, with anteroventral margin slightly expanded laterally, seta absent, only with sensilla on ventral surface (Fig. 8 B). Phallapodeme (Fig. 7 D) in profile parallel sided, basally curved and narrow, distally expanded ventrally; epiphallus long, with subtruncate apex; distiphallus (Figs. 7 D; 8 A) basally straight, with two pairs of smooth free paraphallic processes, lower pair arising at mid-length and convergent apically, upper pair arising slightly beyond mid-length and slightly curved, both pairs of processes apically acute and slightly curved ventrally (Figs. 7 D, F; 8 A); acrophallus unpigmented but hardly sclerotized, in profile wide, downcurved and projected ventrally at tip, trumped-shaped in dorsal / profile view (Figs. 7 D, F; 8 C). Female. Unknown.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFBFE74E5385FF504908FC7D.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Leucophora calilegua sp. nov., in external appearance, looks like the male of L. plumiseta, but differs by the vibrissal angle almost reaching the frontal angle in profile and by the 7 pairs of fr s. Leucophora calilegua sp. nov., shows an outstanding structure in the distiphallus with two pairs of free paraphallic processes, never reported before; also, the gonites are displaced from the basiphallus. The pregonite shape and setation resemble those in L. chancani sp. nov.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFBFE74E5385FF504908FC7D.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’ epithet refers to the name of the National Park “ Calilegua ”, where the holotype was collected.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFBFE74E5385FF504908FC7D.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Jujuy) (Fig. 53 B).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA2E7545385F9134E62FF30.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / a 2 ef 5 c 47 - e 4 e 5 - 48 aa- 826 e-f 77 e 6 c 9 e 6 bb 3 Figs. 9 – 13	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA2E7545385F9134E62FF30.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora catamarca sp. nov. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: palpi long and curved; male with spiniform setae on inner margins of processes of sternite 5, distiphallus with up-curved acrophallus and short free paraphallic processes with dentate distal margin; female ovipositor modified with only one pair of spiracles, epiproct large and rhomboid, and cerci flat and unmovable.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA2E7545385F9134E62FF30.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (IFML): “ R. Argentina / Catamarca / Los Nacimientos / 16 – 31 - I- 1969 / col. Willink – Terán / Stange [white label, printed] ”; “ Trampa Malaise [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2470 [white label, printed] ”; “ Holotype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. Paratypes 7 ♂, 1 ♀ (IFML, MACN): same as holotype, except “ MR 2468 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44646 ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2469 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44647 ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2471 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2474 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2475 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2476 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44649 ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2477 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44648 ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”. 1 ♂ “ R. A. La Rioja / Angulos / 23 - I- 1969 / A. Willink-A. Terán coll. [white label, printed] ”, “ Entomofauna / Subandina [grey label, printed] ”, “ DIP 1085 [orange label, printed] ”. “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora catamarca [red label, printed] ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA2E7545385F9134E62FF30.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 9 – 11) Body length 5.3 – 6.8 mm, wing length 4.4 – 5.8 mm. Coloration (Fig. 9). Head dark brown, with white-greyish pruinosity; frontal vittae dark brown to brown anteriorly (Fig. 9 B). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia, gena, and face brown; parafacialia in profile with a diffuse brown patch from level of insertion of antennae to mid-length or tip of the postpedicel (Fig. 9 C); genae with a diffuse brown patch from vibrissal angle to almost the lower eye margin. Antennae brown; scapus with lower margin lighter; postpedicel with yellowish pruinosity; arista yellowish at middle. Prementum brown. Palpi yellowish-brown with darker apices. Thorax dark brown with light grey pruinosity, with three longitudinal brown vittae (Fig. 9 D), central vitta filling the space between the acrostichal setae, in some specimens the vitta is extended clearly to the tip of scutellum, in others appears like a diffuse brown spot only on the scutellum tip, lateral vittae diffuse between the posthumeral and presutural setae until the transverse suture in most specimens, in others slightly extending beyond it. Anepisternum and katepisternum with light brown patches (Fig. 9 A). Legs brown; femora dark brown and covered with white-greyish pruinosity; tibiae slightly lighter basally. Tarsomere slightly darker. Pulvilli whitish. Wing membrane hyaline, veins light brown. Calypters and halteres whitish, base of halteres light brown. Abdomen brown to light brown towards posterior margin of each segment, with a longitudinal brown vittae on tergites 3 – 5 (Fig. 9 E), slightly narrowed at anterior margin of each segment. Marginal setae with a big, darker base. Sternite 5 brown with yellowish processes. Syntergosternite 7 + 8, epandrium and cerci brown, surstylus lighter. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.6 – 0.8 x width of anterior ocellus, much widening anteriorly, with a few short and scattered setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 0.9 – 1.3 x width of anterior ocellus, lightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 2.3 – 2.7 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 9 B). 4 – 6 pairs of fr s, in some specimens the uppermost pair very thin and short, placed before the level of anterior ocellus (Fig. 9 C). infr s short. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 – 3 additional pairs of long setulae; poc s shorter than oc s. i vt s almost as long as poc s, slightly convergent; o vt s almost 0.5 x the length of i vt s, slightly proclinate. Postpedicel 1.4 – 1.8 x the pedicel length; arista length 1.6 – 2.1 the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.3 – 1.5 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.4 – 0.5 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.2 – 0.4 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile projected beyond the frontal angle (Fig. 9 C). Prementum length from the insertion of palpi to apex about 0.7 – 0.8 x head height. Palpus 0.4 – 0.5 x as long as head height, slightly expanded apically and curved. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of psut acr s, prescutellar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 9 D). Prealar seta less than 0.5 x the notopleural anterior seta. 5 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, the lower anterior shorter and thin (Fig. 9 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of av fine setulae on basal third. Mid femur with 1 av seta on basal fourth; 5 – 6 pv setae on basal half; a row of a setae on basal half and 1 subapical seta; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad and pd setae; 2 – 3 p setae; pv seta absent. Hind femur with a complete row of av, ad and pv setae, longer setae on distal half; 2 subapical d setae; 1 subapical p seta. Hind tibia with 2 – 4 av setae; 3 – 4 ad and pd setae; 2 p setae on distal half. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Fig. 9 E). Sternite 1 more than 2 x wider than long, with a few setulae on posterolateral margins. Sternite 2 1.5 x longer than wide. Sternites 3 – 4 1.2 x longer than wide, narrowed anteriorly. Sternites 2 – 4 with scattered setulae, longer and stronger setae on lateral margins, longest setae almost as long as sternite length. Sternite 5 (Fig. 10 A) as long as wide, narrowed anteriorly, anterior margin slightly concave at middle; processes shorter than basal region, slightly tapered towards apex and lateral margin slightly convergent, rounded apex, inner margin with short and thick setulae (spiniform) specially on distal region, outer surface with some few and scattered setae, longest setae almost as long as processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus tapered at apical half, outer lateral margin straight, inner margin slightly curved, rounded tip (Fig. 10 B); in profile widened towards middle, incurved apically, ventral margin sinuous, acute tip (Fig. 10 C); ventrally with a couple of setulae. Cercal plate about 2 x longer than wide, 0.7 x the surstylus length, with slightly truncate tip; viewed in profile with dorsal surface curved basally, acute tip; covered with scattered setulae being longer on basolateral margins, longest setulae shorter than cercal plate length. Pregonite (Figs. 10 E; 11 B) longer than wide, slightly more than 0.5 x postgonite length, apex acute (in ventral view) and slightly curved dorsally. Postgonite about slightly more than 2 x longer than wide, slightly wider on distal half (Fig. 10 E), apex weakly acute, with 1 long seta ventrally towards apex, with a couple sensilla below it (Fig. 11 B). Phallapodeme (Fig. 10 D) in profile curved, basally thin and distally expanded in lateral view; epiphallus relatively short, in lateral view apex slightly directed ventrally; distiphallus widely fused with basiphallus basally (Fig. 11 A), dorsal sclerotization smooth, paraphalli divergent (in dorsal view) (Figs. 11 A, C), at the end of the divergent paraphalli with short free paraphallic processes (Fig. 11 C); acrophallus unpigmented, wide basally (in dorsal view), in profile view upcurved (Fig. 11 C). Female (Figs. 12 – 13) Body length 6.2 mm, wing length 5 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Fig. 12). Fronto-orbital plate towards inner margins with brown-golden pruinosity (Figs. 12 B, C). Ocellar triangle and ocellar plate with brown-golden pruinosity. Scapus lighter anteriorly. Thorax. Central vitta more defined and widened than in male (Fig. 12 D). Legs slightly darker than in male (Fig. 12 E). Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 3.0 x width of anterior ocellus; frontal vitta at narrowest point 2.4 x width of anterior ocellus, lateral margins sinuous; eyes separated at narrowest point 8.4 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 12 B). 7 pairs of fr s (Fig. 12 C). o vt s divergent. Postpedicel 1.9 x the pedicel length; arista length 1.5 x the postpedicel length. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.1 x eye height (Fig. 12 C). Prementum length from the insertion of palpi to apex 0.7 x head height. Palpus 0.5 x head height. Legs. Mid femur with a row of a setae projecting beyond basal half; 2 p setae. Hind femur with 2 av setae on basal half and 1 subapical seta; pv seta absent. Abdomen. Sternite 1 about 3 x wider than long, a couple of setulae laterally. Sternite 2 1.2 x longer than wide, parallel sided and posterior margin slightly truncated. Sternites 3 – 4 1.5 – 2.0 x longer than wide, anterior and posterior margins slightly narrowed, setulose, with longer setulae on lateral and posterolateral margins. Ovipositor (Fig. 13). Tergite 6 represented by a pair of plates of widely separated posteriorly, longer than wide, wider towards posterior margin, (Fig. 13 A); inner and anterior margins weakly pigmented; posterior margin with a row of intercalated long and short setae (longest setae longer than tergite) which extends onto lateroventral membranes forming with the setulae of sternite 6 a more or less continuous band around the segment, the membrane between the plates bare. Spiracle’s 6 th situated in membrane (Fig. 13 B), in line with the anterior margin of tergite 6; spiracles 7 th not observed. Tergite 7 shorter and narrowed than tergite 6, anterior margin slightly acute, plates weakly pigmented, setation as tergite 6, with membrane bare between the lateral plates on posterior margin. Tergite 8 represented into a pair of robust well sclerotized and pigmented plates, narrowly connected on posterior margin, about 1.2 x longer than wide, anterior margin tapered; in profile (Fig. 13 C), posterior margin rounded and curved ventrally, posterior margin setulose. When fully extended, anterior margin of tergites 6 and 8 remain hidden in the anterior segment (Figs. 13 A, C). Epiproct barely visible in dorsal view (Fig. 13 A), in profile curved ventrally (Fig. 13 C), in posterior view rhomboid, with posterior margin with short setulae (Fig. 13 D). Sternite 6 slightly longer than wide, anterior and posterior margins slightly truncated, anterior half weakly pigmented, posterior margin with a row of setulae (Fig. 13 B). Sternite 7 about longer than wide, shorter than sternite 6, posterior margin with setulae only towards corners. Sternite 8 represented by two transverse plates, almost connected at middle, hidden in profile and ventral view by folds of membrane. Hypoproct linear, wider than long, slightly widened towards lateral, with a row of minute setulae; as tergite 8, hidden by folds of membrane. Cerci modified as strongly wide sclerotized flat plates (Figs. 13 B – D); in posterior view (Fig. 13 D) with acute outer lateral projection, distally with an outstanding margin bearing 4 short and strong spinules, more evident in profile (Fig. 13 C).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA2E7545385F9134E62FF30.taxon	discussion	Remarks. In external appearance L. catamarca sp. nov., is similar to L. tacuil sp. nov., however L. catamarca sp. nov., differs in having curved and longer palpus, scapus and pedicel dark brown. The pregonite shaped and the up-curved acrophallus in L. catamarca sp. nov., resembles those in L. chalten sp. nov., and L. junin sp. nov., but differs from both in structure and shape of sternite 5, the general shape of the distiphallus and the wide of the acrophallus (in dorsal view) (Fig. 11 A, C). Female ovipositor of L. catamarca sp. nov., shares modifications of tergite 8, epiproct, cerci and the presence of only 1 pair of spiracles (spiracles 6 th) with L. chalten sp. nov., but differs by the shape of cerci, epiproct, hypoproct and sternite 8.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA2E7545385F9134E62FF30.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’ epithet refers to the name of the Argentine Province “ Catamarca ”, where the holotype was collected.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA2E7545385F9134E62FF30.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Catamarca, La Rioja) (Fig. 53 C).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA5E75C5385FF5049C8F809.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / ecef 76 be- 8811 - 4 d 15 - a 4 e 3 - e 4922 cc 2524 c Figs. 14 – 18	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA5E75C5385FF5049C8F809.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora chalten sp. nov. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: abdominal tergites with longitudinal brown vitta and big lateral patches; male with processes of sternite 5 with inward apex, surstylus short, distiphallus tubular, acrophallus short and up-curved and minute free paraphallic processes; female with wide frons, modified ovipositor, only one pair of spiracles, sternite 8 represented by two long and strongly sclerotized parallel plates, cerci (in posterior view) with enlarged and acute lateral distal margin.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA5E75C5385FF5049C8F809.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (MACN): “ Arg. Santa Cruz / El Chaltén XII- 06 / Mariluis col. [White label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 36253 [white paper, printed] ”; “ MR 1314 [white label, handwritten] ”; “ Holotype 1 ♂ / Leucophora / chalten [red label, printed] ”. Paratypes 1 ♀ (MACN): same as holotype, except: “ MACN _ En / 36254 [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 1315 [white label, handwritten] ”; “ Paratype 1 ♀ / Leucophora / chalten [red label / printed].	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA5E75C5385FF5049C8F809.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 14 – 16) Body length 7.0 mm, wing length 5.5 mm. Coloration (Fig. 14). Head black with silvery-white pruinosity; frontal vitta black to dark brown with greyish pruinosity (Figs. 14 B, D). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia, genae and face with silvery whitish pruinosity; parafacialia in profile (Fig. 14 C) with a wide shifting black patch at level of insertion of antennae to level of the postpedicel tip, posteriorly almost reaching the genal patch; genae with a dark brown to black patch from the vibrissal angle to the lower eye margin. Antennae black, inner surface of pedicel, scape and postpedicel with grey and brown pruinosity. Arista dark brown with darker base. Prementum black to dark brown. Palpi brown to light brown basally, darker apically. Thorax black with greyish pruinosity, with three longitudinal dark brown vittae (Fig. 14 D), central vitta wide, anteriorly filling the space between the presutural acrostichal setae and posteriorly filling the space between almost the dorsocentral setae, extending over the scutellum but less evident, lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural setae and intralar postsutural setae and prealar and supra-alar postsutural setae. Anepisternum with an upper anterior brown patch (Fig. 14 A). Legs dark brown to black, densely covered with grey pruinosity, except the tarsomeres. Pulvilli brownish. Wing membrane hyaline, with a light brown tinge basally. Veins basally brown and darker distally. Calypters yellowish. Halteres brown with darker base. Abdomen dark brown with grey pruinosity, with a longitudinal dark brown vitta (Fig. 14 E), widened towards posterior of each tergite; with a dark brown posterolateral patch on tergites 3 – 4 connected with the central vitta at posterior margin. Sternite 5 dark brown with lighter processes. Syntergosternite 7 + 8, epandrium and cerci black to dark brown, surstylus lighter. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 1.1 x width the anterior ocellus, scarcely widening anteriorly, without setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 2 x width of anterior ocellus, widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 4.2 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 14 B). 6 – 8 pairs of fr s, the uppermost pair very short, with fine short setulae in between (Fig. 14 C); infr s minute, convergent. oc s pair longer than longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 additional pairs of setulae; poc s pair shorter than the oc s. i vt s as long as oc s, convergent; o vt s less than the half the length the i vt s, proclinate. Postpedicel 1.2 x the pedicel length; arista 2.5 x the postpedicel length, pubescent, longest hairs about 2 x the basal diameter of arista. Parafacials 0.4 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile projected beyond level of frontal angle (Fig. 14 C). Prementum 0.7 x head height. Palpus 0.5 x as long as head height, slightly expanded at tip. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of psut acr s, prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 14 D). Prealar seta less than half the length the notopleural anterior seta. 5 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, lower anterior less developed (Fig. 14 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of fine av setulae on basal third. Fore tibia with 1 ad and pv setae. Mid femur with 1 av seta on basal fourth; 5 pv setae on basal half and 1 apical seta; a setae indistinguishable from the surrounding setulae, 1 subapical seta; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad and pd setae; 2 p setae. Hind femur with a row of av setae longer on distal half; one complete row of ad setae; 2 subapical d setae; 1 subapical p seta; one row of pv setae on basal half and 2 subapical setae. Hind tibia 3 – 4 av, ad, and pd setae, 3 p setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Figs. 14 A, E). Sternite 1 3 x wider than long, laterally setulose. Sternite 2 slightly longer than wide, posterior margin slightly narrowed, covered with long setulae. Sternites 3 – 4 slightly wider than long, anterior margin rounded, strongly setulose, longest setae longer than sternite length. Sternite 5 (Fig. 15 A) 1.3 x longer than wide, anteriorly tapered, anterior margin almost straight; processes rather longer than basal region, slender, slightly convergent, apex slightly truncated and with an inner distal projection directed inward, inner margin with long and sinuous setulae, specially basally, outer surface densely covered with strong setae becoming longer distally, longest setae longer than processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus with slightly curved outer margin, distally tapered and apex rounded (Fig. 15 B); in profile slightly curved basally, ventral margin slightly sinuous, distally tapered, apex rounded; scattered setulae on ventral surface (Fig. 15 C). Cercal plate slightly longer than wide, about 0.3 x the surstylus length; distally tapered, apex rounded, unpigmented and weakly sclerotized medially; in profile with dorsal surface convex on basal half, acute apex; covered with scattered setulae, 1 – 2 pairs of long and strong setae apically, longest setae almost 2 x the cercal plate length. Pregonite (Figs. 15 E; 16 B) about 3 x longer than wide, more than 0.5 x the postgonite length, narrow and slightly constricted at middle, distally acute with 1 basal short seta, without sensilla. Postgonite longer than wide, dorsal margin slightly sinuous, apex narrow and slightly directed ventrally, with 1 seta on ventral surface, with a couple of sensilla basally. Phallapodeme (Fig. 15 D) in profile basally curved, parallel-sided at middle, strongly expanded towards distal half; epiphallus with rounded apex, slightly constricted preapically and slightly curved ventrally; distiphallus (Figs. 15 D; 16 A) slightly curved on basal half, shorter than phallapodeme, with very short and slender free paraphallic processes with a trident-shaped tip (Fig. 16 C); acrophallus unpigmented and up-curved distally (Fig. 16 C). Female (Figs. 17 – 18) Body length 6.2 mm, wing length 5.0 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Fig. 17). Fronto-orbital plate on inner half and ocellar triangle with golden pruinosity (Fig. 17 B). Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 3 x width of anterior ocellus; frontal vitta at narrowest point 4.5 x width of anterior ocellus, parallel sided; eyes separated at narrowest point slightly more than 10 x width of anterior ocellus (Figs. 17 B, D). 6 pairs of fr s (Fig. 17 C). oc s as long as the longest fr s. i vt s longer than oc s; o vt s proclinate and slightly divergent. Postpedicel 1.4 x the pedicel length; arista 2.3 x the postpedicel length. Prementum 0.8 x head height. Legs. Mid femur with 4 – 5 pv setae on basal half, with a row of a setae on basal half and 1 subapical seta; 2 p setae. Hind femur with 1 pv seta on basal fourth and 1 subapical seta. Abdomen. Sternite 1 3 x wider than long, with a couple of lateral setae. Sternites 2 – 5 1.5 – 1.8 x longer than wide, setulose with long setae on posterolateral margins. Sternites 4 – 5 narrowed anteriorly. Ovipositor (Fig. 18). Tergite 6 represented by a pair of well sclerotized lateral plates, slightly longer than wide, posterior margin narrow towards middle, anterior margin narrowed and rounded (Fig. 18 A); in profile with anterior half of dorsal surface straight (Fig. 18 C), slightly convex on posterior half, narrowed ventrally; posterior margin with a row of few but strong and long setae which extends onto the lateroventral membranes forming with setulae of the sternite 6 a more or less continuous band around segment (longest setae longer than tergite length). Spiracle 6 th situated in membrane at middle length of tergite (Fig. 18 B). Tergite 7 similar in shape as tergite 6 but 2 x longer than wide, longer than tergite 6, posterior margin slightly concave; in lateral view wide and slightly rounded ventrally; posterior margin unpigmented, setation as tergite 6 but longest setae shorter than tergite length. Spiracle 7 th not observed / absent. Tergite 8 narrowly divided into a pair of robust and stoutest plates, slightly more than 2 x longer than wide, in dorsal view strongly tapered anteriorly, on posterior half widened and almost touching on middle, outer margin strongly curved; in profile (Fig. 18 C), anterior margin acute, posterior half curved and rounded; posterior margin setulose. When fully extended, anterior region of tergites 6 – 8 remain hidden in the anterior segment (Figs. 18 A, C). Epiproct rhomboid (Fig. 18 A), curved ventrally (Fig. 18 D), setulose on posterior half. Sternite 6 slightly longer than wide, anterior margin slightly truncated and well sclerotized, posterior half weakly unpigmented; posterior margin setulose (Fig. 18 B). Sternite 7 about 1.2 x longer than wide, slightly longer than sternite 6, anterior margin tapered and rounded, posterior margin unpigmented and setulose; membrane towards posterolateral corners of sternite weakly sclerotized. Sternite 8 represented by two longitudinal, narrow, long, and well sclerotized lateral plates, almost touching at anterior and posterior margin, without setulae, only with very short microtrichia; the membrane outer to the plates weakly sclerotized. Hypoproct wider than long, anterior margin rounded, posterior margin with short setulae; due the shape modification of segment 8, the hypoproct is transverse in position. Cerci modified as flat, strongly sclerotized and unmovable pair of transverse plates (Figs. 18 A – C); in posterior view (Fig. 18 D) with acute lateral projection directed ventrally, dorsal margin slightly rounded, on middle towards inner margin with an up-curved projection with a fringe of 4 – 6 strong but short spinules, more evident in profile; in profile (Fig. 18 C), the ventral projection with irregular anterior margin; with some microtrichia on ventral surface. Spermathecae longer than wide (Fig. 18 E).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA5E75C5385FF5049C8F809.taxon	discussion	Remarks. In external appearance, L. chalten sp. nov., resembles those in L. plumiseta, however can easily differentiated by the arista pubescent. The pregonite shaped and the up-curved acrophallus in L. chalten sp. nov., are similar to those in L. catamarca sp. nov., and L. junin sp. nov., but differ from both in having a bare pregonite (Fig. 16 B). From L. catamarca sp. nov., also differs by the slender and very short free paraphallic processes (Fig. 16 C) and by the tubular and straight distiphallus. Differs from L. junin sp. nov., by the relatively longer distiphallus, the presence of the short free paraphallic processes and the absence of distal cuticular projections of the acrophallus. Female ovipositor of L. chalten sp. nov., share modifications of tergite 8, epiproct, cerci and the presence of only 1 pair of spiracles (spiracles 6 th) with C. catamarca sp. nov., but differs by the shape of cerci, epiproct, hypoproct and sternite 8.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA5E75C5385FF5049C8F809.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’ epithet refers to the municipality of “ El Chaltén ”, where the holotype was collected. This municipality is located within the National Park “ Los Glaciares ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFA5E75C5385FF5049C8F809.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Santa Cruz) (Fig. 53 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFAFE7605385FC4D49E5F9B5.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / d 2431508 - 81 d 1 - 4 b 8 e-a 0 a 2 - 3 d 6 ff 503 c 29 d Figs. 19 – 21	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFAFE7605385FC4D49E5F9B5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora chancani sp. nov. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: three longitudinal brown vittae narrow, the central one not extending over the scutellum, cercal plate large and with long lateral setae, processes of sternite 5 with very long setae on outer lateral margins, pregonite with two setae, free paraphallic processes long and papillate dorsally.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFAFE7605385FC4D49E5F9B5.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (MACN): “ ARG., Córdoba, / Chancaní, X- 1990, / J. Genise, J. Farina / P. Hazeldine [white label, printed] ”; “ Polinizador / de Prosopis [White label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 36257 [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 1414 [white label, printed] ”; “ Holotype ♂ / Leucophora / chancani [red label, printed] ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFAFE7605385FC4D49E5F9B5.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 19 – 21) Body length 10.1 mm, wing length 7.7 mm. Coloration (Fig. 19). Head black to dark brown, with light grey pruinosity; frontal vitta black with whitish pruinosity (Fig. 19 B). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia, genae and face with silvery white pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting black patch from level of insertion of antennae to level of tip of postpedicel (Fig. 19 C); genae with a dark brown patch from the vibrissal angle to almost the lower margin of the eye and extending towards the posterior margin of eye. Antennae black; pedicel with lower and inner margins brown to dark brown; arista brown with darker base. Prementum dark brown to black. Palpi yellowish brown. Thorax black with whitish grey pruinosity, with three narrow brown longitudinal vittae (Fig. 19 D), central vitta filling the space between the acrostichal setae and not extending over the scutellum, lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and supra-alar seta and following the line of the intralar postsutural setae (Figs. 19 A, D). Dorsocentral setae with light brown base. Pleura brown without evident patch (Fig. D 19 A). Legs brown. Coxa and femora densely covered with light grey pruinosity. Femora with darker on dorsal surface. Tarsomere slightly darker. Pulvilli brown. Wing membrane hyaline. Veins brown, yellowish at base. Calypters whitish. Halteres light brown with darker base. Abdomen black anteriorly to brown posteriorly, with a narrow brown longitudinal vitta. Posterior margin of tergites brown. Marginal and lateral marginal setae with dark brown bases (Fig. 19 A). Posterior margin of tergite 5, sternite 5, syntergoesternite 7 + 8, epandrium, surstylus, and cerci yellowish. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at the narrowest point 1 x width of anterior ocellus, much widening anteriorly, with minute scattered setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.5 x width of anterior ocellus, widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 3.5 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 19 B). 6 pairs of fr s (Fig. 19 C). infr s short. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 additional pairs of setulae; poc s, shorter than the oc s. i vt s the longest on head, reclinate; o vt s less than the half the length the i vt s, slightly proclinate. Postpedicel 2.1 x the pedicel length; arista 1.9 x the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.4 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.5 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 x eye height (Fig. 19 C). Prementum 0.5 x head height. Palpus 0.4 x as long as head height, filiform with a slightly acute tip. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of psut acr s, prescutelar pair slightly longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 19 D). Prealar seta present. 5 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, lower anterior less developed (Fig. 19 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of fine av setulae on basal half. Mid femur with 6 strong pv setae on basal half and 2 apical setae; a row of a setae scarcely longer than surrounding setulae on basal half and 1 subapical seta; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad and pd setae; 2 p setae. Hind femur with a complete row of av and ad setae; 2 subapical d setae, 1 subapical p setae, a row of pv setae on basal half and 3 subapical setae. Hind tibia with 3 av, ad, and p setae; 2 pd setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Figs. 19 A). Sternite 1 slightly more than 2 x wider than long, setulose on posterolateral margin. Sternite 2 less than 2 x longer than wide, slightly tapered posteriorly, setulose, longer setae on posterolateral margins. Sternite 3 slightly longer than wide, with lateral margins slightly rounded, setulose, longer setae on posterior half. Sternite 4 slightly longer than wide, strongly tapered anteriorly, setulose, longer setae towards posterolateral margins. Sternite 5 (Fig. 20 A) 1.2 x longer than wide, anteriorly narrowed, anterior margin notches medially; processes moderately wide, parallel sided distally, apex rounded, inner margin densely covered with long and thin setulae, basally the setulae are directed posteriorly, distal setulae directed inwards, outer surface with very long setae directed posteriorly, becoming longer distally, longest setae almost as long as sternite 5. Terminalia. Surstylus curved basally and slightly narrow, apically tapered with rounded apex, distal half with sensilla (Fig. 20 B); in profile slightly sinuous, tapered towards apex (Fig. 20 C). Cercal plate about 1.7 x longer than wide, slightly more than 0.5 x the surstylus length and tapered distally, with lateral margins sinuous, notched tip; in profile with dorsal surface slightly curved with rounded tip; surface strongly setulose, strong and long setae towards lateral margins, longest setae longer than cercal plate length. Pregonite (Figs. 20 E; 21 A, B) 2 x longer than wide, about 0.5 x the postgonite length, finger-like shaped, with 2 long setae, 1 on middle dorsal surface (seta almost 2 x longer than pregonite), 1 seta on distal margin (slightly more than 3 x the pregonite length), without sensilla. Postgonite 2 x longer than wide, curved and very narrow basally, with acute and narrow apex, seta absent, with sensilla on middle third (Fig. 21 B). Phallapodeme (Fig. 20 D; 21 A) in profile parallel sided on basal half, curved and acute basally, expanded on distal half, unpigmented on margins; epiphallus with rounded apex and slightly constricted preapically; distiphallus (Figs. 20 D, F; 21 A) in profile curved towards middle, with dorsal sclerotization straight and tapered distally, with long free paraphallic processes arising at middle (Figs. 20 F; 21 A), divergent and basally curved, dorsal margin of processes serrated at middle, apically acute (Fig. 21 C, D); acrophallus unpigmented wide basally, in dorsal and in profile view trump-shaped (Figs. 20 D; 21 A). Female. Unknown.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFAFE7605385FC4D49E5F9B5.taxon	discussion	Remarks. In external appearance and the structure of the distiphallus L. chancani sp. nov., it resembles those in L. tacuil sp. nov., sharing the dorsally serrated (papillated) free paraphallic processes, but differs in having dark brown to black pedicel and postpedicel, and the almost black mark on parafacialia in L. chancani sp. nov., as well as the position of the 2 setae of pregonite directed in the same direction, also by the absence of seta on postgonite	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFAFE7605385FC4D49E5F9B5.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’s epithet refers to the location “ Chancaní ”, where the holotype was collected.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFAFE7605385FC4D49E5F9B5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Córdoba) (Fig. 54 A).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF93E7665385FD114EE0FF21.taxon	description	Figs. 22 – 26	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF93E7665385FD114EE0FF21.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora chilensis can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: three wide longitudinal vittae on thorax, central one extending over the scutellum, abdominal tergites 3 – 5 with a central brown patch (in profile); male with surstylus widened (in posterior view), pregonite with one seta and two acute distal projections; female with sternites 6 – 7 connected on posterior margin, spiracle 7 th displaced posteriorly on membrane of segment 7.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF93E7665385FD114EE0FF21.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (BMNH): “ Bariloche. / 25 – 28. x. 1926. ”; Argentina: / Terr. Rio Negro. / F. & M. Edwards. / B. M. 1927 – 63. ”; “ Hammomyia / chilensis / Type / det. JRMALLOCH ”. “ Holo- / type ”. https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / a 4 e 23 f 9 e- 8 be 1 - 41 f 4 - b 620 - f 81 de 4 aaa 6 a 7 Paratype 1 ♀ (BMNH): “ L Gutierrez. / 3 – 14. xi. 1926. ”; “ Argentina: / Terr. Rio Negro. / F. & M. Edwards. / B. M. 1927 – 63 ”; “ Allo- / type ”. https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / bb 820676 - 53 d 2 - 4 d 33 - 838 f- 8 fbcc 764 faf 9 Other material: 10 ♂, 4 ♀ (IFML, MACN). ARGENTINA. Neuquén, PN Nahuel Huapí, Isla Victoria [862 m. a. s. l.] [- 40.941667, - 71.541389], XII- 1954, L. S. de Orfila & R. N. col. 1 ♀ (MACN _ En [MR 2783]). Villa La Angostura [801 m. a. s. l.] [- 40.762742, - 71.641797], 12 - XII- 1946, Hayward col. det. F. Snyder 1954, 1 ♀ (IFML - DIP 0891). Chubut, PN Los Alerces, Puerto Mermoud, 521 [m. a. s. l.], - 42.723190, - 71.748825, 25 - X- 2014, Mulieri col. 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 36227, 36228, 36237), same data except, Patitucci col. 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 36238); Arroyo Torcido, L. Fataufquen, 520 [m. a. s. l.], - 42.76131, - 71.75058, 26 - X- 2014, Mulieri col. 2 ♂ (MACN _ En 36229, 36230), same data except, Patitucci col. 4 ♂ (MACN _ En 36231, 36232, 36233, 36234), same data except, Torreta col. 2 ♂ (MACN _ En 36225, 36226).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF93E7665385FD114EE0FF21.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 22 – 24) Body length 5.0 – 7.4 mm, wing length 4.0 – 6.0 mm. Coloration (Fig. 22). Head black dorsally to dark brown towards genae, with whitish-silvery or slightly golden pruinosity; frontal vitta black (Fig. 22 B), seen from above with some light greyish pruinosity (Fig. 22 D). Ocellar triangle with golden pruinosity. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia and genae black to dark brown with slightly golden pruinosity, darker posteriorly; parafacialia in profile with wide shifting black to dark brown patch from level of insertion of antennae to the middle length of the postpedicel (Fig. 22 C), genae with a brown patch from the vibrissal margin to the lower margin of the eye. Face brown. Antennae black, lower margin of scapus lighter. Thorax black, with three longitudinal brown dorsal vittae (Fig. 22 D), central vitta filling the space between the acrostichal setae and continuing to the scutellum apex, lateral wide vittae following the posthumeral, presutural, and posterior intralar setae to the posterior postalar seta. Anepisternum with a light brown patch (Fig. 22 A). Legs dark brown, except femora black and tarsomeres dark brown. Pulvilli light brown. Wing membrane hyaline with a brownish tinge, veins brown. Calypters whitish. Halteres light brown with slightly darkened apices. Abdomen black with greyish pruinosity, with central brown longitudinal vitta (Fig. 22 E), on each segment the vitta widened posteriorly but not reach the posterior margin; in profile with a brown patch on lateral surface of tergites 3 – 5 (Fig. 22 F). Sternite 5 dark grey-brownish. Syntergosternite 7 + 8 black. Epandrium black to dark brown. Surstylus yellowish. Cerci brown. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.7 – 0.9 x width of anterior ocellus, rather widening anteriorly, with a couple of minute setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.4 – 1.8 x width of anterior ocellus, widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 3.0 – 3.5 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 22 B). 6 – 7 pairs of fr s, the uppermost pair is minute at about level of anterior ocellus (Fig. 22 C); infr s slightly shorter than the shortest fr s. oc s the longest setae on head; ocellar triangle with 3 pairs of additional setulae; poc s slightly shorter than oc s. i vt s convergent; o vt s proclinate, about 0.5 x the length the i vt s. Postpedicel 1.4 – 1.8 x the pedicel length; arista length 1.6 – 2.1 x the postpedicel length, pubescent, longest hairs as long as the basal diameter of arista. Parafacials 0.4 – 0.5 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 – 0.4 x eye height (Fig. 22 C). Prementum 0.6 – 0.7 x the head height. Palpus 0.4 – 0.5 x the head height, dilated at tip. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of short psut acr s; prescutelar pair slightly longer than longest presut acr s (Fig. 22 D). Prealar seta absent or present, when present, more than 0.5 x the notopleural anterior seta. 5 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, the lower anterior less developed (Fig. 22 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of fine av setulae on basal half. Fore tibia with 1 – 2 pv setae. Mid femur with 4 – 6 av setae on basal half; 4 – 5 pv setae on basal half, 1 preapical seta; a row of strong a setae on basal half; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 – 2 ad setae; 1 pd seta; 2 p setae. Hind femur with a complete row of av setae, longer at distal half; a complete row of ad setae; 2 subapical d setae; 1 subapical p seta; 3 pv setae on basal half. Hind tibia with 3 – 4 av, ad, and p setae; 3 pd setae. Abdomen. Tergites 2 – 5 with lateral marginal seta stronger than median marginal seta (Figs. 22 E, F). Sternite 1 3 x wider than long, setulose except medially. Sternites 2 – 3 less than 1.5 x longer than wide, tapered towards anterior and posterior margins, setulose, longer setae on posterolateral margin. Sternite 4 slightly longer than wide, anterior margin strongly tapered, setae as sternite 3. Sternite 5 (Fig. 23 A) slightly wider than long, anteriorly narrowed, anterior margin straight; processes shorter than basal region, moderately slender, parallel sided, apex rounded with slightly tapered tip, inner margin with fine setulae, outer surface with long and strong setae, longest setae longer than processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus widened and distally tapered, inner and outer margins sinuous (Fig. 23 B); in lateral view dorsal surface almost straight and slightly convex on ventral margin towards mid-length, some scattered setulae on outer basal half (Fig. 23 C). Cercal plate less than 1.5 x wider than long, almost 0.5 x the surstylus length, basally wide and tapered distally with sightly notched tip; in profile with dorsal surface curved, with acute tip; setulose, with very long and strong setae laterally, longest setae more than 2 x the cercal plate length. Pregonite (Figs. 23 E; 24 A, B) about 2 x longer than wide, almost as long as postgonite length, apically with two divergent arms directed ventrally, with 1 short seta on distal margin towards middle (Fig. 24 A), without sensilla. Postgonite slightly more than 2 x longer than wide; constricted basally, apically acute and curved, with 1 seta ventrally, with a couple of sensilla on distal half. Phallapodeme (Fig. 23 D; 24 A) in profile almost straight, thin, basally slightly curved, distally scarcely expanded, unpigmented on margins; epiphallus rounded distally and slightly projected ventrally (Fig. 24 A); distiphallus (Figs. 23 D, F; 24 A) basally straight, with moderately short free paraphallic processes not reaching the acute tip of the dorsal sclerotization; acrophallus unpigmented, and trumpet-shaped apically, in profile distally projected ventrally (Figs. 23 D, F; 24 C), surface with scattered filiform projections. Female (Figs. 25 – 26) Body length 7.1 – 7.4 mm, wing length 5.6 – 6.0 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Figs. 25). Fronto-orbital plate dorsally with brownish pruinosity (Fig. 25 B). Patches on parafacialia and genae connected on parafacial anterior margin (Fig. 25 C). Thorax. Longitudinal vittae wider than male, central vitta almost filling the space between the dorsocentral setae, but interrupted on anterior margin of scutellum (Fig. 25 D). Bases of dorsocentral setae and discal scutellar seta with brown spots. Anepisternum with additional brown patches on upper margin and surrounding the anterior spiracle (Fig. 25 A). Coxae and trochanters darker than in males. Abdomen. Longitudinal vitta parallel-sided (Fig. 25 E), strongly narrowed on tergite 5. Patches on lateral surface lighter. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 1.9 – 2.2 width of anterior ocellus; frontal vitta at narrowest point 3.6 – 5 x width of anterior ocellus, parallel sided; eyes separated at narrowest point 7.5 – 9 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 25 B). 7 – 8 pairs of fr s (Fig. 25 C). poc s slightly longer than ocellar additional setae. i vt s strong, slightly convergent and reclinate; o vt s slightly shorter than i vt s and divergent. Postpedicel 1.8 – 2.1 x the pedicel length; arista short plumose, longest hairs about 3 x the basal diameter of arista. Thorax. 4 short psut acr s; prescutelar pair as long as the longest presut acr s (Fig. 25 D). Prealar seta slightly shorter than notopleural anterior. 6 anepst s. kepst s the lower anterior scarcely longer than surrounding setulae (Fig. 25 A). Legs. Mid femur with 1 short av seta on basal fifth; 2 pv setae on basal third. Hind femur with 5 – 6 strong av setae; a complete row of ad setae becoming longer at distal half. Hind tibia with 2 – 4 av setae; 2 – 3 pd setae; p seta absent. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae longer than median setae (Fig. 25 E). Sternite 1 4 x wider than long, with some lateral setulae. Sternite 2 slightly wider than long, posterior margin rounded. Sternite 3 1.3 x longer than wide. Sternite 4 almost 1.5 x longer than wide. Sternites 3 – 4 narrowed anteriorly. Sternite 5 almost 2 x longer than wide, anterior and posterior margins narrowed. Sternites 2 – 5 setulose, longer setae on lateral and posterior margins. Ovipositor (Fig. 26). Tergite 6 represented by pair of wide plates continuous on posterior margin, with anterior margin rounded (Fig. 26 A); posterior margin less sclerotized and unpigmented with a row of alternate long and short setulae which extends onto lateroventral membranes forming with the setulae of sternite 6 a more or less continuous band around the segment. Spiracle 6 th situated behind the posteroventral corner of tergite 6 (Fig. 26 B). Tergite 7 similar to tergite 6 but slightly longer, lateral plates more separated from each other, with acute posterior margin, posterior half weakly pigmented, setation (chaetotaxy) as tergite 6. Spiracle 7 th situated on posterior half of lateroventral membrane, behind the fringes of setulae of tergite 7 (Fig. 26 B). Tergite 8 widely divided into a pair of strongly sclerotized and pigmented plates, elongate but continuous along posterior margin, slightly longer than tergite 7; with an inner projection towards middle and in posterior margin with a V-shaped unpigmented area (Fig. 26 A); in profile (Fig. 26 C) plates narrowed anteriorly with acute apex; on posterior margin with a couple of rows of short setulae. When fully extended, almost the anterior third of tergite 8 remains hidden by segment 7 (Figs. 26 A, C). Epiproct more than 2 x wider than long, posterior margin setulose. Sternites 6 – 7 about 1.8 x longer than wide (Figs. 26 B), anterior half strongly pigmented and sclerotized, posterior half slightly constricted and unpigmented; anterior margin narrowed, strongly in sternite 7; posterior margin with a couple of short setulae, longer setae towards lateral. Sternite 8 represented by a pair of small, scarcely sclerotized and unpigmented plates towards posterior margin, setulose. Hypoproct about 1.5 wider than long, posterior margin rounded, setulose, longer setae on posterior margin. Cerci longer than hypoproct, slightly expanded posteriorly in dorsal view, dorsally on inner ventral margins with 1 – 2 pairs of recurved spines (longest spines slightly longer than cerci height) (Fig. 26 C), towards dorsal and outer lateral surfaces with smaller spines. Three spermathecae (Fig. 26 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF93E7665385FD114EE0FF21.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Leucophora chilensis share lateral patches on abdominal tergites with L. andicola and L. johnsoni, but differs in having the patches on middle tergites 3 – 5 (Fig. 22 F), in L. andicola the patches are restricted to the anterior margin of tergites 3 – 5 (Fig. 1 F), and in L. johnsoni these patches are only present on tergites 2 – 4 (Fig. 35 A). Female ovipositor of L. chilensis resembles those in L. andicola, however can easily segregated by the pair of spiracles 7 are placed on membrane of segment 7, meanwhile in L. andicola is placed on membrane of segment 6.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF93E7665385FD114EE0FF21.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Chubut *, Neuquén *, Rio Negro) (Fig. 54 B).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF95E76B5385FBA54EDCF8F9.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / d 3 ed 4594 - 942 e- 4676 - a 454 - 449 f 2 afdb 410 Figs. 27 – 28	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF95E76B5385FBA54EDCF8F9.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora delestero sp. nov. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: very long plumose arista, frontal vitta almost parallel-sided; central longitudinal vitta not extending over the scutellum, abdominal tergites 6 and 7 with irregular margins.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF95E76B5385FBA54EDCF8F9.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♀ (IFML): “ R. Argentina / Santiago del Estero / Lago Muyo / 29 - III – 22 - IV- 1937 / col. R. Goldbach [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2458 [white label, printed] ”; “ Holotype ♀ / Leucophora delestero [red label, printed] ”. Paratypes 2 ♀ (MACN, MLPA): “ R. Argentina / Salta, Orán / Abra Grande / 10 - I – 28 - II- 1967 / col. R. Goldbach [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2459 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44650 ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora delestero [red label, printed] ”. “ Manantiales – Jujuy / 3 - II- 958 / Torres-Ferreyra col. [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2447 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora delestero [red label, printed] ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF95E76B5385FBA54EDCF8F9.taxon	description	Description Female (Figs. 27 – 28) Body length 6.1 – 7 mm, wing length 5.2 – 5.7 mm. Coloration (Fig. 27). Head dark brown with greyish pruinosity; frontal vitta black to dark brown anteriorly (Fig. 27 B). Fronto-orbital plate with white pruinosity, inner half and posteriorly with brown pruinosity. Parafacialia, genae, and face with whitish pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting brown to black patch from level of insertion of antennae to almost mid-length of the postpedicel (Fig. 27 C), genae with a brown patch from the vibrissal angle to almost the lower eye margin. Ocellar triangle with brownish pruinosity. Scapus and pedicel dark brown, pedicel light brown on inner and dorsal surfaces; postpedicel black; arista yellow with dark brown base. Prementum dark brown. Palpi light brown with darker apices. Thorax dark brown with greyish pruinosity, with three longitudinal dark brown vittae (Fig. 27 D), central vitta filling the space between the presutural acrostichal setae and almost filling the space between the postsutural dorsocentral setae, not extending over the scutellum, lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural setae and following the intralar postsutural setae. Scutellum with anterolateral surface darkened. Anepisternum with diffuse light brown patch (Fig. 27 A). Legs brown. Coxae with whitish pruinosity. Femora darkened, more evident on fore femora. Tarsomere dark brown. Pulvilli light brown. Wing membrane hyaline. Veins light brown. Calypters whitish. Halteres brown with darker base. Abdomen dark brown with greyish pruinosity, with a dark brown longitudinal vitta (Fig. 27 E). Posterior margins of tergites 2 – 4 brown. Posterior margin of tergite 5 yellowish. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 2.1 – 2.6 x width the anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, with minute scattered setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 2.1 – 2.3 x width the anterior ocellus, almost parallel sided; eyes separated at narrowest point 6.4 – 7.4 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 27 B). 6 pairs fr s, with a few minute setulae in between (Fig. 27 C). infr s slightly shorter than shortest fr s. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 additional pairs of setulae; poc s 0.5 x the length the oc s. o vt s as long as the longest fr s, divergent. Postpedicel 2.8 x the pedicel length; arista 1.4 – 1.5 x the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.9 – 2.2 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.3 – 0.4 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 – 0.4 x eye height (Fig. 27 C). Prementum 0.5 x head height. Palpus 0.4 x as long as head height, slightly dilated at tip. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 6 pairs of psut acr s, prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 27 D). Prealar seta 0.5 x the length the notopleural anterior. 5 anepst s. 1 + 2 kepst s, the lower posterior less developed (Fig. 27 A). Legs. Mid femur with 1 av seta on basal fourth; 3 pv setae on basal third; a row of a setae slightly projecting beyond basal half; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad and pd setae; 2 p setae. Hind femur with a row of longer av setae on distal half; a complete row of ad setae; 1 subapical d and p setae, 2 subapical pv setae. Hind tibia with 3 av setae, 2 – 3 ad and pd setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong. Sternite 1 with a few posterolateral setulae. Ovipositor (Fig. 28). Tergites 6 – 7 represented by a pair of plates almost connected on posterior margin (Fig. 28 A), plates almost of equal length, posterior margin a row of setulae which extends onto the lateroventral membranes, forming with the setulae on the sternites a more or less continuous band around each segment (longest setae of each tergite shorter than tergite length). Spiracles 6 th and 7 th both situated in membrane (Fig. 28 B), 6 th situated behind lateroventral corner of tergite 6, 7 th situated on intermembrane space between segments 6 – 7. Tergite 8 widely divided into a pair of strongly sclerotized and pigmented lateral plates continuous along posterior margin, the longest tergite; lateral plates and posterior band of equal width, anterior margin with rounded apex; in profile (Fig. 28 C), parallel side but with irregular margins; posterior margin with a row of setulae. Epiproct laterally fused with cerci, 2 x wider than long, posterior margin notched and with 3 – 4 pairs of setulae. Sternites 6 – 7 1.7 – 2.3 x longer than wide (Fig. 28 B), longer than respective tergite, slightly constricted on posterior half, slightly tapered anteriorly; on posterior margin with scattered setulae. Sternite 8 represented by a pair of small and scarcely sclerotized plates, strongly narrowed anteriorly, setulose. Hypoproct wider than long, setulose, with longer setulae on posterior margin. Cerci broad, longer than epiproct (Fig. 28 A), parallel sided, partly pilose, dorsally and laterally bearing a couple of recurved spines, two longest and stoutest towards inner margin (longer than cerci height) (Fig. 28 C). Spermathecae (Fig. 28 D). Male. Unknown.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF95E76B5385FBA54EDCF8F9.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The ovipositor structure in L. delestero sp. nov., is similar to L. tacuil sp. nov., and L. yacochuya sp. nov., but differs from both in the shape of sternites 6 – 8 and by the presence of spiracles 6 th on the membrane of segment 6 and spiracles 7 th on the membrane of segment 7; meanwhile, in the other two species, both pairs of spiracles (6 th and 7 th) are located on segment 6.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF95E76B5385FBA54EDCF8F9.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’ epithet refers to the name of the Argentine province “ Santiago del Estero ”, where the holotype was collected.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF95E76B5385FBA54EDCF8F9.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Jujuy, Salta, Santiago del Estero) (Fig. 54 C).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF98E76A5385FBDD48CEFDDD.taxon	description	(Fig. 29)	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF98E76A5385FBDD48CEFDDD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora flavipes can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: only one longitudinal dorsal vitta on thorax and genae very narrow, about 0.1 x eye height.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF98E76A5385FBDD48CEFDDD.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Syntypes 2 ♂ (MSNM): Piura, Peru, Nov. 9 CHTTownsend Collector. Ammomyia flavipes sp n (MSNM).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF98E76A5385FBDD48CEFDDD.taxon	description	Description Male (Fig. 29) Body length 4.7 – 5.4 mm, wing length 4.0 – 4.2 mm. Coloration (Fig. 29). Head brown to dark brown, with whitish-light yellow pruinosity; frontal vitta brown, lighter anteriorly (Fig. 29 B). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia, genae, and face with whitish pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting brown patch from level of insertion of antennae to almost tip of postpedicel (Fig. 29 A); genae with a narrow brown patch from the genal margin to the lower margin of the eye. Antennae brown, postpedicel dark brown; arista dark brown, yellowish at middle. Prementum brown. Palpi brown-yellowish. Thorax black to dark brown with greyish pruinosity; with one brown longitudinal vittae (Fig. 29 C), filling the space between the acrostichal setae but finishing at prescutellar setae, scutellum with a brown apical patch. Pleura with a couple of light brown patches (Fig. 29 A). Legs yellowish; coxae densely covered with whitish pruinosity. Tarsomere brown. Pulvilli light brown. Wing membrane hyaline with a whitish tinge basally; veins yellowish brown. Calypters whitish. Halteres yellowish, with slightly darker bases. Abdomen brown anteriorly to black posteriorly, with whitish pruinosity; with a longitudinal central brown vitta (Fig. 29 C), more evident from tergite 3 and posteriorly; posterior margin of tergites 3 – 5 brownish. Tergites 3 – 5 with posterior margin yellowish (in profile). Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 1.2 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, bare; frontal vitta at narrowest point 0.8 x width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 3.1 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 29 B). 4 pairs of fr s; the uppermost pair short and inserted slightly before the level the anterior ocellus (Fig. 29 A). infr s not observed. oc s broken; ocellar triangle with 2 – 3 additional pairs of setulae. Postpedicel 1.3 x the pedicel length; arista 2.2 x the postpedicel length, short plumose, longest hairs more than 1.0 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.3 width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin less than 0.1 x eye height. Vibrissal angle slightly projected beyond the frontal angle (Fig. 29 A). Thorax. Chaetotaxy; prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 29 C). 4 – 5 anepst s. 1 + 2 kepst s (Fig. 29 A). Prealar seta absent. Legs. Mid tibia with 2 p setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Fig. 29 C). Sternites 2 – 4 densely covered with long and erect setae.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF98E76A5385FBDD48CEFDDD.taxon	discussion	Remarks. In external appearance, L. flavipes resembles those in L. chancani sp. nov., and L. tacuil sp. nov., by the narrow brown central vitta on thorax, but differs from both by the very narrow interfrontal plate and genae and fewer frontal setae, also because L. flavipes has only one vitta on thorax. The description provided for this species is based exclusively on type material photographs. Characters included in this redescription are based on photographs of the type material and complemented with the original description (Stein 1918).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF98E76A5385FBDD48CEFDDD.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: Peru (Fig. 54 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF99E7725385F8F94F7FFA70.taxon	description	Figs. 30 – 34	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF99E7725385F8F94F7FFA70.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora johnsoni can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: transverse veins r-m and / or dm-cu clouded; male with slender surstylus (in posterior view), pregonite with lateral lobe, distiphallus short without free paraphallic processes, and acrophallus with distal cuticular projections; female with abdominal tergite 6 connected at middle, sternites 6 – 7 widened on posterior margin, tergite 8 very long.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF99E7725385F8F94F7FFA70.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Paratype 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (BMNH): Hammomyia peullae Chile, Peulla (BMNH) “ Peulla: / 12 - 13. xii. 1926. ”; “ S Chile: / Llanquihue Prov. / F. & M. Edwards. / B. M. 1927 – 63 ”; “ Para- / type ”. https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / 5 d 684 c 35 - 8195 - 4 cf 8 - 8 cea- 171 dd 3 b 9 c 6 cf https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / 44424503 - 6242 - 4706 - 87 aa- 5 b 711 aaf 7071 Other material. 62 ♂, 9 ♀ (IFML, MACN). ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, Ensenada, Reserva Punta Lara, Malaise, 4 [m. a. s. l.], - 34.79964, - 58.00745, 15 – 21 - XII- 2016, C. Cazorla col. 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 36346, 39858), same data except, 8 – 15 - II- 2017, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 39860, 39861); PPE Tornquist, Campamento Base Co. Ventana, Transecta, 500 [m. a. s. l.], - 38.055280, - 61.978819, 19 - II- 2016, Mulieri, Olea & Patitucci col. 3 ♂ (MACN _ En 36293, 36294, 36295), same data except Est. Meteorológica, Transecta, 520 [m. a. s. l.], 20 - II- 2016, Olea col. 1 ♂ (MACN _ En 36296), same data except, Patitucci col. 1 ♂ (MACN _ En 36297), same data except, 26 - X- 2016, Mulieri & Olea col. 2 ♂ (MACN _ En 36307, 36308); Ruta 76, Transecta, 247 [m. a. s. l.], - 38.171434, - 62.341294, 25 - X- 2016, Mulieri & Olea col. 4 ♂ (MACN _ En 36303, 36304, 36305, 36306); same data except, Mulieri col. 1 ♂ (MACN _ En 33571); Part. Puan, Barraondo, Transecta, 110 [m. a. s. l.], - 38.398225, - 62.837612, 29 - X- 2016, Mulieri col. 3 ♂, 2 ♀ (MACN _ En 36318, 36319, 36328, 36329, 36330), same data except, Olea col. 6 ♂ (MACN _ En 36320, 36321, 36322, 36323, 36324, 36325), same data except, Pan Trap, Compagnucci col. 2 ♂ (MACN _ En 36326, 36327); Pdo Tornquist, Ao. de la Ventana, Transecta, 345 [m. a. s. l.], - 38.47894, - 61.128122, 19 - II- 2016, Mulieri col. 2 ♂ (MACN _ En 36291, 36292); Ruta Provincial 76, Ao. Atravezado, Transecta, 325 [m. a. s. l.], - 38.021876, - 61.858028, 21 - II- 2016, Olea col. 3 ♂, 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 36298, 36299, 36301, 36302), same data except, Patitucci col. 1 ♀ (MACN _ En 36300), same data except, 30 - X- 2016, Olea col. 15 ♂, 2 ♀ (MACN _ En 33576, 33577, 36331, 36332, 36333, 36334, 36335, 36336, 36337, 36338, 36339, 36340, 36341, 36342, 36343, 36344, 36345); Saldungaray, Río Rivera, Transecta, 246 [m. a. s. l.], - 38.231457, - 61.800128, 28 - X- 2016, Mulieri col. 3 ♂ (MACN _ En 36309, 36310, 36311), same data except, Olea col. 6 ♂ (MACN _ En 36312, 36313, 36314, 36315, 36316, 36317); Villa Ventana, Ao. Belisario, 360 [m. a. s. l.], - 38.09070045, - 61.925167, 19 - II- 2016, Mulieri col. 2 ♂ (MACN _ En 36289, 36290), same data except, Olea col. 1 ♂ (MACN _ En 36288). Catamarca, Angastaco [- 25.691273, - 66.167807], 7 - XII- 1968, A. Willink-Stange col. 1 ♀ (IFML). Chubut, PN Los Alerces, Puerto Mermoud, 521 [m. a. s. l.], - 42.723190, - 71.748825, 25 - X- 2014, Mulieri col. 5 ♂ (MACN _ En 36247, 36248, 36249, 36250, 36251). Salta, Cafayate [1625 m. a. s. l.] [- 26.073080, - 65.976052], II- 1951, Hayward col. 1 ♀ (IFML - DIP 0890). Tucumán, Aconquija [- 27.327285, - 65.771577], 6 – 10 - XII- 1950, R. Goldbach col. (IFML - DIP 0892).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF99E7725385F8F94F7FFA70.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 30 – 32) Body length 4.1 – 6.1 mm, wing length 3.1 – 4.5 mm. Coloration (Fig. 30). Head dark brown, with light brown-silvery pruinosity; frontal vitta black to dark brown anteriorly (Fig. 30 B). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia, genae, and face with silvery pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting black to yellow patch from level of insertion of antennae to mid-length of postpedicel (Fig. 30 C); genae with a brown to yellow patch from the genal margin to the lower margin of the eye. Antennae black, pedicel with dark brown dorsal tip; arista dark brown with black base. Prementum dark brown. Palpi brown on basal half and dark brown distally. Thorax black with greyish and light-brown pruinosity; with three dark brown longitudinal vittae (Fig. 30 D), central vitta filling the space between the acrostichal setae and not extending over the scutellum (in some specimens from Chubut not extending beyond the first dorsocentral setae), lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural setae and intralar postsutural setae and prealar and supra-alar postsutural setae. In some specimens, bases of dorsocentral setae with dark brown base and with light brown pruinosity between the central and lateral vittae; bases of notopleural setae with brown pruinosity. Anterolateral corners of scutellum dark brown. Anepisternum with a yellowish patch (Fig. 30 A). Legs dark brown; coxae, trochanters, and tibiae lighter; coxae and femora densely covered with greyish pruinosity. Tarsomere almost black. Pulvilli light brown. Wing membrane hyaline with a light brown tinge basally; membrane darkened on r-m and dm-cu transverse veins, in some specimens the darker membrane is not as evident or only visible in one of the transverse veins; veins brown to dark brown. Calypters whitish with a slightly darkened margin. Halteres brown with darker base. Abdomen black with greyish pruinosity; with a central longitudinal dark brown vitta (Fig. 30 E), narrowed anteriorly on each segment; posterior margin of tergites 3 – 5 yellowish. Tergites 2 – 5 with lateral dark brown patch towards posterior of each tergite. Syntergosternite 7 + 8, epandrium and cerci dark brown. Surstylus and sternite 5 brown, sternite processes lighter. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.8 – 1.5 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, bare; frontal vitta at narrowest point 0.8 – 2.0 x width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 2.7 – 4.6 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 30 B). 4 – 5 pairs of fr s; in some specimens, the uppermost pair short and inserted slightly before the level the anterior ocellus, with setulae in between (Fig. 30 C). infr s almost as long as the shortest fr s. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 – 3 additional pairs of setulae; poc s shorter than the oc s. i vt s slightly shorter than oc s, reclinate; o vt s less than half the i vt s length. Postpedicel 1.2 – 1.5 x the pedicel length; arista 1.9 – 2.2 x the postpedicel length, short plumose, longest hairs 0.5 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.3 – 0.4 width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.2 – 0.3 x eye height. Vibrissal angle slightly projected beyond the frontal angle (Fig. 30 C). Prementum 0.5 – 0.6 x head height. Palpus 0.4 – 0.5 x as long as head height, slightly expanded at tip. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of psut acr s; prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 30 D). 5 anepst s. 1 – 2 + 2 kepst s, lower anterior barely (in some specimens this seta is indistinguishable from the surrounding setulae) (Fig. 30 A). Prealar seta absent or shorter than anterior notopleural Legs. Fore femur with a row of av setulae on basal third. Mid femur with 3 short av setae on basal fourth; 4 – 5 pv setae on basal half; a row of a setae on basal half and 1 subapical seta; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad and pd setae; 2 p setae. Hind femur with a row of long av setae on distal half; a complete row of ad setae; 1 – 2 d setae; 1 p seta; 4 pv setae on basal half and 1 subapical seta. Hind tibia with 3 – 4 av setae; 3 ad setae; 4 pd setae; 2 – 3 p setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Fig. 30 E). Sternite 1 about 3 x wider than long, setulose except middle, longest setulae almost as long as the sternite width. Sternite 2 slightly longer than wide, narrowed posteriorly. Sternite 3 about 1.4 x longer than wide, anterior margin narrowed, posterior margin straight. Sternite 4 slightly longer than wide, shape as sternite 3. Sternites 2 – 4 setulose, longest setulae on lateral margins of posterior half. Sternite 5 (Fig. 31 A) about as long as wide, anteriorly tapered, anterior margin almost rounded; processes longer than basal region, slender, apex rounded and narrow, slightly directed inwards, basal inner margin with dense short setulae, outer surface with some short and long setae, longest setae about as long as processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus longer than epandrium, inner basal margin slightly concave, tips slightly divergent and tapered (Fig. 31 B); in profile basally convex on dorsal surface, scarcely sinuous at tip, narrowed towards distal half (Fig. 31 C); some setulae on basal half towards outer lateral surface, otherwise with short sensilla, ventral surface with a longitudinal fringe of setulae on middle. Cercal plate slightly longer than wide, about 0.5 x the surstylus length, heart-shape, with rounded apex; in profile with dorsal surface curved at middle, basal and distal apexes narrow and acute; surface setulose and covered with long microtrichia, except on central longitudinal stripe with 4 pairs of long setae, 2 pairs apically and other 2 pairs basally on lateral margin. Pregonite (Figs. 31 E; 32 A) as long as wide, as long as pregonite, with an outer lateral flat lobe; with 2 setae, 1 preapical seta on the lobe, and 1 seta basally, without sensilla. Postgonite about 2 x longer than wide, tapered and pointed distally, seta / setulae absent, only with a few sensilla on basal half on outer surface. Phallapodeme (Figs. 31 D; 32 A) in profile basally acute and slightly curved, distally sinuous and expanded, unpigmented on apex; epiphallus wide and with rounded apex; distiphallus (Figs. 31 D; 32 A) short and curved dorsally, without free paraphallic processes; acrophallus cylindrical, with irregular acute projections on distal margin (Fig. 32 B), unpigmented. Female (Figs. 33 – 34) Body length 3.8 – 5.0 mm, wing length 3.1 – 3.6 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Fig. 33). Head dark brown to brown, with light grey pruinosity. Ocellar triangle with yellowishsilvery pruinosity (Figs. 33 B, D). Patches on parafacialia and genae yellowish (Fig. 33 C). Thorax. In some specimens, with central vitta narrower and the lateral vittae scarcely visible (Fig. 33 D). Darkened cross-veins of wing more notorious. Abdomen, lateral dark brown patch on tergite 5 may be visible or not (Fig. 33 A). Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 1.6 – 2.3 x width of anterior ocellus; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.2 – 2.2 x width of anterior ocellus; eyes separated at narrowest point 4.7 – 6.4 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 33 B). Arista with longest hairs 0.4 – 0.6 x the postpedicel width. Thorax. 1 + 1 kepst s, katepisternum with short and scattered setulae (Fig. 33 A). Legs. Fore tibia, ad setae stronger. Mid femur with av setae absents; 2 pv setae on basal third. Hind femur with 2 pv setae on basal half and 1 subapical seta. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae stronger than male (Figs. 33 A, E). Sternite 1 slightly more than 2 x wider than long, with a couple of setulae on posterolateral corners. Sternite 2 2 x longer than wide, slightly narrowed towards posterior margin. Sternites 3 – 5 1.2 x – 1.4 x longer than wide. Sternites 2 – 5 setulose, with a pair of long setae on posterolateral margin of each segment. Ovipositor (Fig. 34). Tergite 6 represented by a wide plate (Fig. 34 A), slightly wider than long, anterolateral corners narrowly projected anteriorly, with rounded apex; posterior half with a deep but narrow invagination at middle; posterior margin with a row of strong and long setae which extends onto the lateroventral membranes forming with setulae of the sternite 6 a more or less continuous band around segment (longest setae slightly shorter than tergite length). Spiracles 6 th and 7 th both situated in membrane (Fig. 34 B), 6 th slightly before mid-length of tergite 6, 7 th situated in line with setulae in membrane. Tergite 7 represented by two widely divided lateral plates, slightly shorter than tergite 6, straight, not curved; in profile (Fig. 34 C), anterior margin very height and almost straight, posterior margin rounded; posterior margin with a row of setae of different sizes which extends onto the lateroventral membrane, forming with the setulae of sternite 7 a more or less continuous band around the segment, dorsally the membrane between the lateral plates bare (longest setae shorter than tergite length). Tergite 8 widely divided into a pair of strongly sclerotized lateral plates continuous along posterior margin, the longest tergite, anterior margin strongly tapered; in profile tapered towards anterior margin, apex curved and truncate, posterior margin with rows of very short setulae. When fully extended, tergites 6 – 8 and sternite 7 remain partially hidden in the anterior segment (Figs. 34 A – C). Epiproct laterally fused with cerci, slightly more than 2 x wider than long, posterior margin narrow and slightly notched, with a pair of long setae. Sternite 6 1.1 x wider than long (Fig. 34 B), shorter than tergite 6, tapered and more sclerotized towards anterior margin, posterior margin with rows of setae. Sternite 7 about 1.2 x longer than wider, slightly shorter than sternite 6, anterior margin very narrow with rounded apex, posterior margin less sclerotized and pigmented with rows of setulae. Sternite 8 represented by a pair of small, scarcely sclerotized plates, setulose. Hypoproct wider than long, posterior margin rounded, setulose and pilose. Cerci broad, slightly longer than hypoproct, dorsally with numerous recurved spines (Fig. 34 A), the longest and stoutest pairs on inner posterior surface (longer than cerci height) (Fig. 34 C). Spermathecae (Fig. 34 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF99E7725385F8F94F7FFA70.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The lobed pregonite in L. johnsoni is shared with L. longilingua and L. yacochuya sp. nov. However, it differs from both species by the presence of the darkened r-m and / or dm-cu transverse veins, also by relatively short distiphallus; from L. longilingua can be separated by the presence of 2 setae on the pregonite, by the short prementum, and the cerci shape; from L. yacochuya sp. nov., can be differentiated by the cerci shape and the absence of the free paraphallic process. Female ovipositor of L. johnsoni resembles that of L. plumiseta in having the tergite 8 enlarged and anteriorly acute, and by the pairs of spiracles 6 th and 7 th on membrane of segment 6, but differs by the shape of tergites 6 – 7 and by the wider sternites 6 – 7 in L. johnsoni. According to the redescription made by Griffiths (1996: 1669), the females of this species have the tergite 6 divided into pairs of dorsolateral plates; however, in the females dissected in this work, the tergite 6 is a wide plate with a deep excavation on posterodorsal margin (Fig. 36 A). Griffiths (1996: 1667) synonymized L. argentina, L. maculipennis, and L. peullae with L. johnsoni. The three species synonymized were referred to as different species by external characters (the length of the aristal pubescence and the degree of darkening of the transverse veins). This range of variation was observed by Griffiths in the Nearctic material, also this was confirmed by the examination of male genitalia from type material of L. argentina and L. peullae made by Ackland and with the detailed original description and illustration of L. maculipennis. In this work, we previously identified the species L. argentina, L. peullae, and L. maculipennis according to the keys of Malloch (1934) as well as the original descriptions in Malloch (1943) and Albuquerque (1953). We dissected male and female specimens (when possible) from several localities of these species and confirmed the observations made by Griffiths.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF99E7725385F8F94F7FFA70.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. In North America, Batra (1965) found association of L. johnsoni with Lasioglossum zephyrus (Smith) (Halictidae) and the kleptoparasitic bee Sphecodes sp. (Halictidae); Knerer & Atwood (1967) reported this species as infesting colonies of halictid bees (Halictus rubicundus (Christ) and Dialectus lineatulus (Crawford). In South America, Polidori et al. (2015) reported for the first time from the Neotropics any anthomyiid fly associated with augochlorine bees. In Chilean Patagonia, they found specimens of L. johnsoni (as L. peullae in the paper) as nest parasites of a new species of Corynura (Halictidae), posteriorly described as Corynura (Corynura) moscosensis González-Vaquero, 2017.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF99E7725385F8F94F7FFA70.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Nearctic and Neotropical (ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CHILE) (Fig. 55).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF81E7775385FE5649E2FCD5.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / 4342 fbf 2 - 7 dbb- 4 e 92 - 80 ad- 8 e 1 e 445 b 0 d 64 Figs. 35 – 37	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF81E7775385FE5649E2FCD5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora junin sp. nov. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: long palpi, central vitta on thorax extending even on ventral surface of scutellum and over the mediotergite, distiphallus short, without free paraphallic processes, and with acrophallus up-curved.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF81E7775385FE5649E2FCD5.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (MACN): “ Arg. Neuquén, Junín de los Andes, / Ruta 23 (Transecta) 780 m [m. a. s. l.] / - 39.94607, - 71.08059 / 16 - XII- 2013 Mulieri & Patitucci leg. [White label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ EN / 36236 [White label, printed] ”; “ MR 10 [white label, handwritten] ”; “ Holotype ♂ / Leucophora junin [red label, printed] ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF81E7775385FE5649E2FCD5.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 35 – 37) Body length 6.4 mm, wing length 4.8 mm. Coloration (Fig. 35). Head black with light grey pruinosity; frontal vitta black, with brownish pruinosity. Fronto-orbital plate with silvery-white pruinosity and golden pruinosity along the fronto-orbital setae (Fig. 35 B). Parafacialia and genae with silvery-white pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting black patch from level of insertion of antennae to mid length of postpedicel (Fig. 35 C); genae with a brown to dark brown patch from the vibrissal angle to the lower margin of the eye. Face with white pruinosity. Antennae black, distal margin of scapus and pedicel bark brown; arista dark brown with black base. Prementum dark brown. Palpi dark brown with lighter bases. Thorax black with grey pruinosity, with three wide and well-defined dark brown longitudinal vittae (Fig. 35 D), central vitta filling the space between almost the dorsocentral setae, on postsutural scutum almost touching the dorsocentral line, extending on the scutum dorsal and ventrally, continuing over the scutellum and mediotergite (Fig. 35 E), lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural setae and intralar postsutural setae and prealar and supra-alar postsutural setae. Anepisternum with the upper posterior corner with a brown patch (Fig. 35 A). Legs dark brown; coxae and trochanters brown; mid and hind tibiae slightly lighter. Tarsomere darkened. Pulvilli slightly dark brown. Wing membrane hyaline; veins brown, slightly lighter basally. Calypters whitish with yellowish margins. Halteres light brown with darker base. Abdomen black with greyish pruinosity, with a broad longitudinal dark brown vitta (Fig. 35 E). Anterior and posterior margins of each tergite dark brown. Sternite 5, syntergosternite 7 + 8, epandrium, surstylus, and cerci dark brown. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.9 x width of anterior ocellus, much widening anteriorly; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.3 x width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 3.1 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 35 B). 8 – 9 pairs of fr s; with short setulae in between (Fig. 35 C). infr s as long as the shortest fr s. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 3 additional pairs of setulae; poc s shorter than the oc s. i vt s slightly shorter than oc s, convergent; o vt s about 0.5 x the length the i vt s. Postpedicel 2.8 x the pedicel length; arista 2 x the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.3 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.5 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile slightly projected beyond frontal angle (Fig. 35 C). Prementum 0.8 x head height. Palpus 0.5 X as long as head height, slightly expanded at tip. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of psut acr s, prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 35 D). Prealar seta less than 0.5 x the length the notopleural anterior. 6 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, lower anterior less developed (Fig. 35 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of fine av setulae on basal third. Mid femur with av setae absents; 5 – 6 pv setae on basal half; row of a setae indistinguishable from the surrounding setulae, 1 subapical seta; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad and pd setae; 2 p setae. Hind femur with a row of av setae, longer on distal half; a complete row of ad setae; 2 d subapical setae; 1 subapical p seta; 1 – 2 pv setae on basal third. Hind tibia with 3 av, pd, and p setae, 3 – 5 ad setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Fig. 35 E). Sternite 1 about 3 x wider than long, setulose. Sternite 2 about 2 x longer than wide, narrowed posteriorly, with long setulae. Sternites 3 – 4 about 1.4 x longer than wide, slightly rounded on posterior margin, covered with long setae, longest setae almost as long as the respective sternite. Sternite 5 (Fig. 36 A) almost 1.3 x longer than wide, rather narrowed anteriorly, anterior margin straight; processes longer than basal region, moderately slender, outer margins parallel sided, slightly expanded distally, rounded apex, inner margin with long and thin setulae, outer surface with long and strong setae becoming longer distally, longest setae longer than processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus slightly incurved basally, of equal width in almost all their extension, tapered towards apex, rounded tip (Fig. 36 B); in profile almost straight, rather narrowed towards distal third; with fine setulae on ventral surface (Fig. 36 C). Cercal plate slightly longer than wide, about 0.5 x the surstylus length, heart-shaped, with notched tip; in profile with dorsal surface slightly curved basally and apically, tip narrow and rounded; surface with scattered setulae, longer setae laterally on basal half and apically; longest setae as long as cercal plate length. Pregonite (Figs. 36 E; 37 A – C) 2 x longer than wide, 0.5 x the postgonite length, distal half narrow and slightly up-curved, with 1 short basal seta, without sensilla. Postgonite longer than wide, in lateral view parallel-sided on distal half, with rounded tip, with 1 long subapical seta ventrally, with a few scattered sensilla on outer surface. Phallapodeme (Fig. 36 D) in profile acute and curved basally, dorsal and ventral margins sinuous, distally expanded, unpigmented on margins; epiphallus rounded, slightly expanded; distiphallus (Figs. 36 D; 37 B) widely fused with basiphallus, with dorsal sclerotization relatively short, without free paraphallic processes, mainly unpigmented; acrophallus (Fig. 36 D) widened preapically and up-curved, with irregular projections on distal margin (Fig. 37 C), unpigmented. Female. Unknown.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF81E7775385FE5649E2FCD5.taxon	discussion	Remarks. In external appearance, the male of L. junin sp. nov., looks similar to the male of L. plumiseta, but differs by the longitudinal central vitta covering the ventral surface of the scutellum and mediotergite. The pregonite shape and the up-curved acrophallus in L. junin sp. nov., resemble those in L. catamarca sp. nov., and L. chalten sp. nov. However, it differs from both by the absence of free paraphallic process and by the presence of distal cuticular projections on acrophallus (Fig. 36 C). L. chalten sp. nov. can also be differentiated by the structure of sternite 5, where the apex of the processes is rounded and straight, while in L. chalten, the inner posterior margin of the processes is inwards.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF81E7775385FE5649E2FCD5.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’ epithet refers to the name “ Junín de los Andes ”, where the holotype was collected.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF81E7775385FE5649E2FCD5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Neuquén) (Fig. 56 A).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E7765385FF504E36FAF2.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. 1 ♀ (MACN). Argentina: Córdoba, Roca, 5 km N de Realicó, - 32.72868, - 61.91538 [89 m. a. s. l.]. Sobre Helianthus annuus L. 6085 / LP 141. 19 - XII- 2006. Torretta, Cilla & Montaldo cols. (MACN _ En 44651).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E7765385FF504E36FAF2.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, Córdoba *) (Fig. 56 B).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E77A5385FE0C4E79F9FD.taxon	description	Figs. 38 – 40	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E77A5385FE0C4E79F9FD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora plumiseta can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: arista plumose, 9 – 10 pairs of fr s, with three longitudinal vittae on thorax; male with vibrissal angle projected beyond the frontal angle in profile, the central vitta on thorax extending only over dorsal surface of the scutellum, not over the ventral surface of the scutellum nor over the mediotergite.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E77A5385FE0C4E79F9FD.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (BMNH): Peru, Lima, Verrugas Canyon https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / 5 c 167137 - 56 ed- 470 b-b 62 a-ca 0 cabd 1 ab 52 Other material: 1 ♀ (IFML). ARGENTINA: Tucumán, Burruyacú, V. Padre Monti [- 26.4998, - 64.7412] [529 m. a. s. l.] 17 - I – 7 - II- 1948. R. Goldbach col. Det. F. Snyder, 1 ♀ (DIP 0894).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E77A5385FE0C4E79F9FD.taxon	description	Description Male (Fig. 38) Body length 6.6 mm, wing length 5.8 mm. Coloration (Fig. 38). Head black to dark brown, with light greyish pruinosity; frontal vitta dark brown to black (Fig. 38 B). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia and genae with whitish-silvery pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting dark brown to black patch from level of insertion of antennae to mid-length of postpedicel (Fig. 38 C); genae with a brown patch from vibrissal angle to almost the lower eye margin. Face with light brown pruinosity. Ocellar triangle with dark brown pruinosity. Antennae dark brown to black; pedicel lighter on distal margin; arista light brown with dark brown base. Prementum dark brown. Palpi brown with darker apices. Thorax black to dark brown, with grey pruinosity; with three longitudinal dark brown vittae (Fig. 38 D), central vitta anteriorly filling the space almost between the acrostichal setae, at middle almost reaching the dorsocentral setae, extending on the scutellum, lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural setae and intralar postsutural and prealar and supra-alar setae. Anepisternum with some light brown patches. Legs brown. Fore femora and dorsal surface of mid and hind femur darkened. Fore and mid tibiae slightly darkened, hind tibiae lighter. Tarsomere dark brown. Pulvilli brown. Wing membrane hyaline. Veins brown. Calypters whitish. Halteres brown with darker base. Abdomen dark brown with greyish pruinosity, with a continued longitudinal dark brown vitta (Fig. 38 D), with a dark brown band at posterior margin of each segment (Fig. 38 A). Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.8 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.2 x width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 3.0 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 38 B). 9 – 10 pairs of fr s; with short setulae in between (Fig. 38 C). infr s as long as the shortest fr s. oc s the longest setae on head; ocellar triangle with 3 additional pairs of setulae; poc s slightly shorter than the oc s. i vt s slightly shorter than oc s, convergent; o vt s about 0.5 x the length the i vt s. Postpedicel 2.0 x the pedicel length; arista 2 x the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.5 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.5 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.25 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile projected beyond frontal angle (Fig. 38 C). Prementum 0.7 x head height. Palpus slightly expanded at tip. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of psut acr s, prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 38 D). Prealar seta less than 0.5 x the length the notopleural anterior. 6 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, lower anterior less developed. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Fig. 38 D). Female (Figs. 39 – 40) Body length 6.6 mm, wing length 5.7 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Fig. 39). Head with frontal vitta dark brown, lighter anteriorly (Fig. 39 B). Fronto-orbital plate with brown-golden pruinosity on posterior half, otherwise silvery. Parafacialia and genae white-silvery pruinosity; patches on parafacialia and genae slightly lighter (Fig. 39 C). Ocellar triangle with brownish pruinosity. Thorax. Black to dark brown, with brownish-grey pruinosity; with three longitudinal dark brown vittae (Fig. 39 D), central vitta filling the space between almost between the dorsocentral setae, slightly extending on anterior half of scutellum (Fig. 39 A). Abdomen. Dark brown with greyish pruinosity, with a longitudinal dark brown vitta (Fig. 39 D), interrupted at anterior margin and connected with a dark brown band at posterior margin of each segment; in profile with an expansion of the dark brown posterior margin band in tergites 3 – 4 (Fig. 39 A). Major setae with darker base. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 2.0 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, with minute scattered setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 2.3 x width of anterior ocellus, almost parallel sided; eyes separated at narrowest point 6.0 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 39 B). 9 pairs of fr s setae, with short setulae in between (Fig. 39 C). infr s short and thin. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 additional pairs of setulae; poc s slightly shorter than oc s. o vt s as long as the longest fr s. Postpedicel 1.6 x the pedicel length; arista 1.7 x the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.1 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.25 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile reaching the frontal angle (Fig. 39 C). Palpus filiform. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: prescutelar pair longer than the longest psut acr s (Fig. 39 D). Prealar seta 0.5 x the length the notopleural anterior seta. 5 anepst s. 1 + 1 kepst s (Fig. 39 A). Legs. Mid femur with 1 av seta on basal fourth; 2 – 3 pv setae on basal third; a row of a setae slightly projecting beyond basal half; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad and pd setae; 2 p setae. Hind femur with a complete row of av and ad setae; 2 subapical d setae; 1 subapical p and pv setae. Hind tibia with 3 av setae; 2 – 3 ad and pd setae. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Figs. 39 A, D). Sternite 1 more than 2 x wider than long, with a couple of setulae on posterolateral corners. Sternite 2 2 x longer than wide, narrowed posteriorly. Sternites 3 – 5 almost 1.5 x longer than wide, narrowed towards anterior margin; sternites setulose, longer pair of setae on posterolateral margin; sternite 5 with abundant long setulae. Ovipositor (Fig. 40). Tergite 6 represented by a pair of plates almost narrowly separated on posterior half, wider than long, widened towards lateral margins, less pigmented towards inner basal margins (Fig. 40 A); posterior margin with two rows of abundant setae, the anterior row with longer setae (longest setae longer than tergite length), rows extending onto lateroventral membranes forming with the setulae of sternite 6 a more or less continuous band around segment. Spiracles 6 th and 7 th both situated in membrane (Fig. 40 B), 6 th at posterior half, 7 th on posterior margin in line with the rows of setae. Tergite 7 represented by two lateral plates widely separated, longer than wide, longer than tergite 6, with anterolateral corner acute and incurved; on posterior margin with two rows of setae extending onto lateroventral membranes connecting with the setulae of sternite 7 (longest setae shorter than tergite length), the dorsal space between both plates bare. Tergite 8 widely divided into a pair of strongly sclerotized and pigmented lateral plates continuous along a broad posterior margin and almost connected each other preapically, the longest tergite; in dorsal view, tapered anteriorly, with rounded apex; in profile (Fig. 40 C) rather wide posteriorly and tapered anteriorly; posterior margin with two rows of short and strong setulae. When fully extended, anterior tip of tergite 8 remains partially hidden in the anterior segment (Figs. 40 A, C). Epiproct laterally fused with cerci, almost 2 x wider than long, notched on posterior margin with two pairs of setulae. Sternite 6 1.1 x wider than long (Fig. 40 B), as long as tergite 6, with anterior margin rounded and well-sclerotized; posterior margin slightly concave and less-sclerotized; posterior margin with many rows of setulae. Sternite 7 more than 1.5 x longer than wide, slightly shorter than tergite 7 and longer than sternite 6, anterior margin tapered and well sclerotized, posterior margin less sclerotized, with many rows of short setulae. Sternite 8 represented by a pair of small and scarcely sclerotized plates, setulose. Hypoproct wider than long, with posterior margin rounded, pilose and setulose, longer setulae on posterior margin. Cerci broad distally, as long as epiproct (Fig. 40 A), in profile parallel sided; dorsally on distal half with recurved spines with acute apex, two longest and stoutest towards inner margin (longer than cerci height) (Fig. 40 C). Spermathecae (Fig. 40 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E77A5385FE0C4E79F9FD.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The male specimen could only be examined through photographs of type material. In external appearance, the male of L. plumiseta resembles those males of L. calilegua sp. nov., L. chalten sp. nov., and L. junin sp. nov., but can be differentiated from L. calilegua sp. nov., by the vibrissal angle projected beyond the level of the frontal angle in profile, and by 9 – 10 pairs of fr s; from L. chalten sp. nov., by the plumose arista; and differs from L. junin sp. nov., by the absence of the longitudinal vitta on the ventral surface of the scutellum and mediotergite. The ovipositor structure in L. plumiseta is similar to L. johnsoni, but differs in the shape of tergites 6 – 8.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF85E77A5385FE0C4E79F9FD.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA * (Tucumán), PERU (Fig. 56 C).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77A5385FCD948EBFFA1.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype. 1 ♂ (MSNM): “ Piura / Peru / June 22 [white paper, handwritten] ”; “ CHTTownsend / Collector [white paper, printed] ”; “ Ammomyia / rufitibia sp n / Stein det. [White label, handwritten, printed] ”;	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77A5385FCD948EBFFA1.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Michele Zilioli (comm. per.) from the entomology laboratory of MSNM informed us that the type specimen is lost, only the labels are available.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77A5385FCD948EBFFA1.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: PERU (Fig. 57 A).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77C5385FB254E18FCD6.taxon	description	Figs. 41 – 42	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77C5385FB254E18FCD6.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora subvittata can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: arista short plumose with longest hairs about 2 x the basal diameter of arista, genae more than 0.5 x the eye height, three longitudinal dorsal vittae on thorax, central vitta not extending over the scutellum; wing without darkened transverse veins.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77C5385FB254E18FCD6.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (USNM): Bariloche, Rio Negro, Agr [Argentina] Nov 1926, R & EShannon. Hammomyia subvittata Type det. JRMALLOCH Paratypes 1 ♂ (USNM). Bariloche, Rio Negro, Agr [Argentina] Nov 1926. R & EShannon Hammomyia subvittata Type det. JRMALLOCH. 1 ♀ (BMNH). Peulla, Chile https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / object / 92458 a 56 - 8 cf 2 - 4 d 5 e-af 47 - 4333 b 93 fcab 3	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77C5385FB254E18FCD6.taxon	description	Description Male (Fig. 41) Body length, 8.5 mm, wing length 7.0 mm Coloration (Fig. 41). Head black with white silvery pruinosity; frontal vitta black with some grey pruinosity (Fig. 41 B). Parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting black patch from level of insertion of antennae to level of postpedicel tip (Fig. 41 C), genae with a black patch from the vibrissal angle extending to behind the eye, connected with the parafacialia patch on anterior margin. Antennae black, scapus dark brown on distal margin, arista lighter at middle. Prementum and palpi dark brown to black. Thorax black with grey pruinosity; with three longitudinal dark brown vittae (Fig. 41 D), central vitta filling the space between the acrostichal setae, not extending over the scutellum, a pair of lateral vittae filling the space from the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural setae and intralar and supra-alar postsutural setae. Disc of scutellum without brown marks. Base of dc setae brown. Anepisternum with a brown patch below notopleuron (Fig. 41 A). Legs dark brown to black. Apex of femora brown, mid and hind tibiae brownish. Tarsomeres dark brown. Wing membrane hyaline with brown to dark brown veins. Haltere brown. Abdomen black with grey pruinosity, with a longitudinal dark brown vitta. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.8 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, with scattered short setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.9 x width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 3.5 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 41 B). 7 – 8 pairs of fr s, with short setulae in between (Fig. 41 C). infr s shorter than the longest fr s. oc s strong and longer than infr s; ocellar triangle with 2 additional pairs of setulae; poc s shorter than oc s. i vt s the longest setae on head, convergent; o vt s pair thin and shorter than poc s, slightly proclinate. Postpedicel 1.8 x the pedicel length; arista 1.8 x the postpedicel length, pubescent, longest hairs almost 2 x the basal diameter of arista. Parafacials 0.5 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile reaching the level of frontal angle (Fig. 41 C). Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 pairs of psut acr s, prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 41 D). Prealar seta absent. 6 anepst s. 1 + 2 kepst s. Female (Fig. 42) Body length, 7.2 mm, wing length 6.1 mm Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Fig. 42). Head black with light yellowish pruinosity; frontal vitta black with some grey pruinosity, parallel sided (Fig. 42 B). Parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting dark brown patch from level of insertion of antennae to level of postpedicel tip (Fig. 42 C), genae with a dark brown patch from the vibrissal angle extending to behind the eye. Antennae dark brown to black, pedicel lighter distally, arista lighter at middle. Prementum and palpi dark brown to black. Thorax. Vittae less defined than in male (Fig. 42 A, D). Anepisternum with a brown patch below notopleuron (Fig. 42 A). Legs with hind tibiae brown. Abdomen. Black with brownish-grey pruinosity, with a diffuse longitudinal dark brown vitta. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 1.4 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, with scattered short setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point almost 5.0 x width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 9.0 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 42 B). 7 – 8 pairs of fr s, with short setulae in between (Fig. 42 C). infr s shorter than the longest fr s. oc s strong and longer than the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 3 additional pairs of setulae; poc s shorter than oc s. i vt s strong and the longest setae on head, convergent; o vt s thinner and shorter than poc s, slightly divergent. Postpedicel 2.0 x the pedicel length; arista 2.1 x the postpedicel length, pubescent, longest hairs about 3 x the basal diameter of arista. Parafacials 0.4 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.6 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile reaching the level of frontal angle (Fig. 42 C).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77C5385FB254E18FCD6.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The description provided for this species is based exclusively on type material photographs. In external appearance, L. subvittata looks similar to L. chilensis, but differs in having the central longitudinal dorsal vitta on the thorax not extending over the scutellum, and the lateral brown marks on abdominal tergites 3 – 5 of the male L. subvittata are absent. The females resemble those in L. delestero sp. nov., and L. plumiseta; however, L. subvittata can be separated from L. delestero sp. nov., by the wider interfrontal plate and parafacialia and a higher genae; from L. plumiseta differs in having shorter hairs on the arista, about 2 x the basal diameter of arista, and wider parafacialia.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF89E77C5385FB254E18FCD6.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Bariloche), CHILE (Peulla) (Fig. 57 B).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF8CE7055385FF50498AF8DD.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / 96 f 04 ba 5 - 623 b- 4 bef-af 1 f-cb 13 cdc 877 cb Figs. 43 – 47	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF8CE7055385FF50498AF8DD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora tacuil sp. nov. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combinations of characters: arista long plumose, palpi straight, longitudinal brown vitta on abdomen narrow, male with surstylus curved and slightly expanded preapically (in posterior view), cercal plate not strongly narrowed distally, pregonite small with two long setae, distiphallus with free paraphallic processes long and papillate dorsally, acrophallus long; female with sternites 6 – 7 longer than wide and with spiracles 6 th and 7 th on membrane of segment 6.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF8CE7055385FF50498AF8DD.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (IFML): “ R. Argentina / Salta / Tacuil / 16 – 31 - XII- 1968 / col. R. Goldbach [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2460 [white label, printed] ”; “ Holotype ♂ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. Paratypes 4 ♂: 5 ♀ (IFML, MACN). Same as holotype, except “ MR 2465 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44655 ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2466 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44654 ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2467 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44652 ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. 1 ♂ “ R. Argentina / Catamarca / Los Nacimientos / 16 – 31 - I- 1969 / col. Willink – Terán / Stange [white label, printed] ”; “ Trampa Malaise [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2473 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. 5 ♀ Same as holotype, except “ MR 2461 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2462 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2463 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44653 ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2464 [white label, printed] ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”. “ MR 2472 [white label, printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44656 ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora tacuil [red label, printed] ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF8CE7055385FF50498AF8DD.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 43 – 43) Body length 6.0 – 8.1 mm, wing length 5.1 – 7.1 mm. Coloration (Fig. 43). Head black dorsally to dark brown towards genae, with greyish-silvery pruinosity; frontal vitta dark brown seen from above (Figs. 43 B, D). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia and genae with silvery pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with wide shifting dark brown to brown patch from level of insertion of antennae to level of the tip of the postpedicel or just before (Fig. 43 C); genae with a brown patch from the vibrissal angle to the lower margin of the eye. Antennae dark brown to brown, pedicel and scapus lighter; arista lighter at median third. Prementum dark brown to brown. Palpi yellowish with dark brown apices. Thorax black to dark brown, with greyish pruinosity; with three – five longitudinal brown vittae (Fig. 43 D), central vitta filling the space between the acrostichal setae to the posterior margin of scutum, four weakly visible lateral vittae, one pair along the dorsocentral setae, more evident seen from behind, other pair following the posthumeral, presutural and posterior intralar setae to the posterior postalar seta, more evident at major setae bases. Lateral margins of scutellum brownish. Pleura silvery pruinose with some weakly visible brown patches (Fig. 43 A). Legs brown, with trochanters, apices of femora and tibiae slightly lighter. Pulvilli light brown. Wing membrane hyaline with a light brown tinge; veins slightly yellowish. Calypters slightly whitish. Halteres light brown with darkened bases. Abdomen dark brown, densely covered with silvery-grey pruinosity, with a narrow brown longitudinal vitta on tergites 3 – 5 (Fig. 43 E). Posterior half of tergite 5 brown. Syntergosternite 7 + 8 brown, covered with silvery grayish pruinosity. Epandrium with ventral margin brown, without pruinosity. Cerci brown. Surstylus yellowish. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.9 – 1.1 x width of anterior ocellus, rather widening anteriorly, with a few scattered setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.0 – 1.8 width of anterior ocellus, slightly widening towards lunule; eyes separated at narrowest point 2.9 – 4.4 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 43 B). 4 – 6 pairs of fr s, with short setulae in between (Fig. 43 C). infr s as long as the shortest fr s. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 – 3 additional pairs of setulae; poc s almost 0.5 x the length of the oc s. i vt s the longest on head, reclinate; o vt s less than 0.5 x the length of i vt s, slightly proclinate. Postpedicel 1.8 – 2.3 x the pedicel length; arista 1.7 – 2.1 x the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.0 – 1.1 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.4 – 0.5 width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.2 – 0.4 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile reaching or slightly beyond the frontal angle (Fig. 43 C). Prementum length from insertion of palpi to apex 0.4 – 0.5 x the head height. Palpus 0.4 x the head height, filiform. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 2 – 3 pairs of short presut acr s setulae, 4 – 6 pairs of short psut acr s, prescutelar pair developed (Fig. 43 D). Prealar seta almost 0.3 x the length of the notopleural anterior seta. 4 – 5 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, the lower anterior slightly longer than surrounding setulae (Fig. 43 A). Legs. Fore femur with a row of av setae on basal third, fine. Mid femur with 1 – 2 short av setae on basal fifth; 5 long pv setae on basal half and 3 preapical setae; a complete row of a setae, scarcely differentiated on basal half and 1 subapical seta; 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad seta; 1 – 2 pd setae; 2 p setae, pv seta absent. Hind femur with a complete row of av, ad, and pv setae; 2 subapical d setae; 1 subapical p seta. Hind tibia with 3 – 4 av and ad setae; 3 pd setae; 4 – 6 p setae. Abdomen. Tergites 2 – 5 with lateral marginal setae stronger than median marginal setae (Figs. 43 A, E). Lateral median seta on tergite 5 strongest. Sternite 1 2 x wider than long, with long setulae towards posterolateral corners. Sternite 2 about 2 x longer than wide, strongly tapered towards posterior, with scattered long setulae, setulae almost as long as sternite length. Sternites 3 – 4 almost 1.5 x longer than wide, slightly narrowed anteriorly, covered with long setulae, setulae longer than sternite length, longest setulae on posterolateral corners. Sternite 5 (Fig. 44 A) as long as wide, anteriorly tapered, anterior margin concave; processes slightly longer than basal region, moderately slender and slightly divergent at apex, inner basal margin with fine setulae becoming longer and sinuous towards apex, outer surface with long and straight setae directed posteriorly, longest setae almost as long as the processes. Terminalia. Surstylus basally narrow and incurved, becoming wider distally, with rounded apex (Fig. 44 B); in profile slender and sinuous, with rounded apex (Fig. 44 C); on ventral surface with a longitudinal fringe of setulae on middle. Cercal plate about 1.5 x longer than wide, slightly more than 0.5 x the surstylus length; slightly constricted on distal half, with widely notched tip; in profile, with dorsal surface weakly curved, with acute apex; covered with setae, long and straight basally and longer and sinuous on lateral margin at distal half. Pregonite (Figs. 44 E; 45 B) more than 2 x longer than wide, less than 0.5 x the postgonite length, tapered basally, with 2 long setae (both setae longer than pregonite), 1 seta on dorsal half and 1 seta on distal margin, without sensilla. Postgonite more than 2 x longer than wide, narrow at basal half; on dorsal half expanded ventrally, with a slightly serrated margin, with 1 midventral seta, with a couple of sensilla on lateroventral surface. Phallapodeme (Figs. 44 D; 45 A) in profile, parallel-sided, basally narrow and curved, distally expanded and less unpigmented; epiphallus slightly constricted preapically with rounded apex; distiphallus (Figs. 44 D; 45 A) slightly curved at middle, with divergent free paraphallic processes arising beyond middle (Figs. 44 D, F; 45 C), dorsally serrated (Figs. 45 D, E), with acute at tip; acrophallus unpigmented, trumpet-shaped dorsal and in profile (Figs. 44 D, F; 45 C). Female (Figs. 46 – 47) Body length 6.3 – 7.0 mm, wing length 5.5 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration. Patches on parafacialia and genae blackish to dark brown, in some specimens parafacialia slightly with golden pruinosity (Fig. 46 C). Distal margin of scapus lighter in color; arista dark brown beyond the third antennomere. Prementum black to dark brown. Thorax. Dorsal vittae wider than male, central vitta even connecting with the lateral vittae at the posterior half of the scutum (in one specimen the central vitta follows the space between dorsocentral setae from the posterior dorsocentral presutural seta to posterior margin of scutum, before it the vitta follows the acrostichals) (Figs. 46 D, E). Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 1.6 – 2.1 x width of anterior ocellus; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.6 – 2.6 x width of anterior ocellus, margins sinuous; eyes separated at narrowest point 5.0 – 7.0 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 46 B). 5 – 7 pairs of fr s (Fig. 46 C). infr s as long as or slightly shorter than the longest fr s. poc s slightly shorter than oc s. i vt s less than 0.5 x the length of o vt s, slightly proclinate; o vt s convergent, the longest setae on head. Thorax. Prealar seta less than 0.5 x the length of the notopleural anterior seta (Fig. 46 D). Legs. Mid femur with 1 short av seta on basal fourth; 2 – 3 pv setae on basal third; 1 pd seta. Hind femur with 3 ad setae. Abdomen. Tergite 5 without lateral median seta. Sternite 1 3 x wider than long, with a couple of setulae towards posterolateral corners. Sternite 2 about 1.5 x longer than wide, narrowed towards posterior, with scattered setulae. Sternites 3 – 5 2 x or longer than wide, narrowed anteriorly, covered with scattered setulae, longer setae on lateral margins; sternite 5 posteriorly tapered and the longest. Ovipositor (Fig. 47). Tergite 6 represented by a pair wide and long plates, narrowly separated, slightly longer than wide, less sclerotized and unpigmented on inner and anterior margins (Fig. 47 A), on posterior margin with a row of alternate long and short setulae which extends onto the lateroventral membranes forming with the setulae of sternite 6 a more or less continuous band around the segment, in dorsal view with anterior margin subtruncate. Spiracles 6 th and 7 th both situated on lateroventral membrane towards posterior half of segment 6 (Fig. 47 B). Tergite 7 similar to tergite 6 but slightly longer than wide, scarcely longer than tergite 6, setae as in segment 6. Tergite 8 widely divided into a pair of strongly sclerotized and pigmented elongate lateral plates but almost continuous along posterior margin, only linearly separated centrally, about as long as tergite 7; in profile (Fig. 47 C) plates almost parallel-sided and posterior margin subtruncate; on posterior margin with a row of setae. Epiproct weakly fused with cerci laterally, slightly more than 2 x wider than long, notched posteriorly, with 2 pairs of setae, 1 pair long and 1 pair short. Sternites 6 – 7 more than 2 x longer than wide, basally narrow and constricted preapically, slightly longer than each tergite, with a couple of rows of setulae posteriorly, longer setae laterally. Sternite 8 represented by a pair of small, scarcely sclerotized plates towards posterior margin, narrowed anteriorly, setulose posteriorly. Hypoproct almost 1.5 x wider than long, rounded posteriorly, covered with scattered setulae, longer setae laterally. Cerci longer than hypoproct (Fig. 47 B), in dorsal and lateral view slightly widened posteriorly, dorsally on inner surface with 2 pairs of strong and long recurved spines (longest spines longer than cerci height) (Fig. 47 C), towards dorsal and outer lateral surfaces with smaller spines, otherwise setulose. Spermathecae (Fig. 47 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF8CE7055385FF50498AF8DD.taxon	discussion	Remarks. In external appearance, L. tacuil sp. nov., is similar to L. catamarca sp. nov., however, L. tacuil sp. nov., differs in having a straight palpus, scapus, and pedicel light brown. Male terminalia resemble those in L. chancani sp. nov., in the shape of surstylus, cercal plate, and distiphallus with dorsally dentate (serrated) free paraphallic processes; however, can differ by the shape and setation of sternite 5, the shorter pregonite, and the absence of seta on postgonite.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF8CE7055385FF50498AF8DD.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’ epithet refers to the name “ Tacuil ”, where the holotype was collected.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFF8CE7055385FF50498AF8DD.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Catamarca, Salta) (Fig. 57 C).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFF6E70B5385FBF9490DFED5.taxon	description	https: // zoobank. org / NomenclaturalActs / 72864 bb 9 - 783 a- 48 a 4 - 992 c- 1 c 150186 b 860 Figs. 48 – 52	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFF6E70B5385FBF9490DFED5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Leucophora yacochuya nov. sp. can be differentiated from its congeners by the following combination of characters: male and female with central dorsal vitta on thorax not extending over the scutellum, palpi straight; female without recurved spines on cerci; male with pregonite lobed, postgonite without long seta, only with sensilla; surstylus slightly curved dorsally in profile.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFF6E70B5385FBF9490DFED5.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype 1 ♂ (IFML): “ R. Argentina / Salta / Cafayate / Yacochuya / 1 – 15 - I- 1969 / col. Willink – Terán / Stange [white label, printed] ”; “ MR 2482 [White label, printed] ”; “ Holotype ♂ / Leucophora yacochuya [red label, printed]. Paratypes 1 ♂, 4 ♀ (IFML, MACN) same data as holotype, except “ MR 2481 [white label printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44657 ”; “ Paratype ♂ / Leucophora yacochuya [red label printed] ”. “ MR 2478 [white label printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44659 ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora yacochuya [red label printed] ”. “ MR 2479 [white label printed] ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora yacochuya [red label printed] ”. “ MR 2480 [white label printed] ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora yacochuya [red label printed] ”. “ MR 2483 [white label printed] ”; “ MACN _ En / 44658 ”; “ Paratype ♀ / Leucophora yacochuya [red label printed] ”.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFF6E70B5385FBF9490DFED5.taxon	description	Description Male (Figs. 48 – 50) Body length 7.0 – 7.7 mm, wing length 5.4 – 7.0 mm. Coloration (Fig. 48). Head dark brown to brown, with greyish-brown pruinosity; frontal vitta black to dark brown anteriorly (Fig. 48 B). Fronto-orbital plate, parafacialia, genae and face brown with light brown pruinosity; parafacialia in profile with a wide shifting brown to light orange patch from level of insertion of antennae to level of insertion of arista (Fig. 48 C), genae with a brown patch from vibrissal angle to almost the lower eye margin. Antennae dark brown; scapus and pedicel with lighter inner surface; arista yellow with dark brown base. Prementum brown. Palpi brown with darker apices. Thorax dark brown with greyish-brown pruinosity, with three longitudinal dark brown vittae (Fig. 48 D), central vitta filling the space between the acrostichal setae, but not extending over the scutellum, lateral vittae filling the space between the posthumeral and supra-alar presutural setae, and posteriorly divided into two stripes, one stripe following the intralar postsutural, the second one following the prealar and supra-alar postsutural setae. Anterolateral corners of scutellum dark brown. Anepisternum with a light brown patch (Fig. 48 A). Legs brown to dark brown. Femora with dorsal surface darkened. Tibia slightly lighter apically. Tarsomere darker. Pulvilli brown to dark brown. Wing membrane hyaline, with a slightly light brown tinge. Veins brown. Calypters light brown. Halteres light brown with darker base. Abdomen brown with light brown pruinosity, with a longitudinal narrow dark brown vitta interrupted at anterior margin of each segment (Fig. 48 E). Tergite 5 with posterior half yellowish. Lateral marginal setae with darker bases. Syntergosternite 7 + 8, epandrium, cerci, and surstylus as abdomen. Sternite 5 brown with lighter processes. Head. Fronto-orbital plate at narrowest point 0.7 – 0.8 x width of anterior ocellus, widening anteriorly, with scattered short setulae; frontal vitta at narrowest point 1.2 – 1.7 x width of anterior ocellus; eyes separated at narrowest point 2.5 – 3.2 x width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 48 B). 6 – 8 pairs of fr s, with short setulae in between (Fig. 48 C). infr s short and thin. oc s as long as the longest fr s; ocellar triangle with 2 additional pairs of setulae; poc s shorter than the oc s. i vt s the longest setae on head, reclinate and convergent; o vt s less than half the i vt s, proclinate. Postpedicel 1.6 – 1.8 x the pedicel length; arista 1.6 – 1.8 x the postpedicel length, plumose, longest hairs 1.9 – 2.1 x the postpedicel width. Parafacials 0.3 – 0.4 x width of eye. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 x eye height. Vibrissal angle in profile reaching or slightly beyond level of frontal angle (Fig. 48 C). Prementum length from insertion of palpi to apex 0.5 x head height. Palpus 0.4 x as long as head height. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: 5 – 7 pairs of psut acr s, prescutelar pair longer than the longest presut acr s (Fig. 48 D). Prealar seta less than half the notopleural anterior. 5 anepst s. 2 + 2 kepst s, the lower anterior shorter and thinner (Fig. 48 A). Legs. Fore femur one row of av fine setulae on basal third. Fore tibia with 1 d / ad, 1 p / pv setae. Mid femur with 2 av setae on basal fourth, 6 – 8 pv setae, one row of a setae on basal half and 1 subapical seta, 2 p setae. Mid tibia with 1 ad, pd, and 2 p setae. Hind femur a complete row of av setae, longer on distal half; complete row of ad setae, 2 d subapical setae, 1 p subapical seta, 3 pv subapical setae. Hind tibia with 3 – 4 av and ad setae, 3 pd setae, 2 – 4 p setae on middle third. Abdomen. Lateral marginal setae strong (Figs. 48 A, E). Sternite 1 2.5 x wider than long, setulose laterally, longest setae on posterior margin. Sternite 2 slightly longer than wide, narrowed posteriorly. Sternite 3 1.6 x longer than wide, slightly narrowed and somewhat rounded toward posterior margin. Sternite 4 1.3 x longer than wide, with slightly rounded anterior and posterior margins. Sternites 2 – 4 with scattered setulae, longer towards posterolateral margins, longest setae shorter than sternite length. Sternite 5 (Fig. 49 A) almost 1.2 x longer than wide, slightly constricted at middle, narrowed anteriorly with anterior margin straight; processes almost as long as basal region, slender, slightly incurved towards apex, with a small preapical projection on inner margin and with narrow and acute tip, inner margin with dense and thin setulae, outer surface long and strong setae, longest setae shorter than processes length. Terminalia. Surstylus in posterior and lateral view somewhat broad towards middle, with a constriction on inner basal half, tapered towards apex and rounded tip (Fig. 49 B); in profile broad toward middle and incurved; ventrally with a longitudinal fringe of setulae on distal half (Fig. 49 C). Cercal plate about 1.3 x longer than wide, less than a half the surstylus length, hearth-shaped, tapered towards apex, tip widely notched; in profile with dorsal surface curved basally, rather tapered towards apex, tip narrow and slightly up-curved; surface setulose with longer lateral setae on basal half, with a pair of long and strong setae subapical. Pregonite (Figs. 49 E, F; 50 B, C) wider than long, more than a half the postgonite length, with an outer lateral narrow lobe; with 2 setae, one basally on ventral surface, one preapically on ventral surface of the lobe, with 1 sensilla below the basal seta, with cuticular microtrichia on middle ventral surface (Fig. 53 B, C). Postgonite 1.5 x longer than wide, dorsal and ventral surfaces curved distally, without seta, with a couple of sensilla on basal half of outer surface. Phallapodeme (Fig. 49 D) in profile slightly curved on middle, basally curved and narrower, slightly expanded distally; epiphallus broad and with slightly rounded apex; distiphallus (Figs. 49 D, G; 50 A) in profile curved before middle, with acute pair of free paraphallic processes raised distally below the dorsal sclerotization (Fig. 50 D, E); acrophallus unpigmented, trumpet-shaped at dorsal and lateral view. Female (Figs. 51 – 52) Body length 5.8 – 7.3 mm, wing length 5.0 – 6.1 mm. Differs from male as follows: Coloration (Fig. 51). Frontal vitta dark brown to brown (Fig. 51 B). Scapus light brown. Postpedicel brown with darker base. Patches on parafacialia and genae more yellowish (Fig. 51 C). Thorax. Anterolateral corners of scutellum lighter than male and central vitta on scutum not evident (Fig. 51 D). Abdomen. Central vitta slightly wider than male (Fig. 51 E). Head. postpedicel 1.8 – 2.7 x the pedicel length (Fig. 51 B). Longest hairs of arista 1.5 – 2.0 x the postpedicel width. Genae below lowest point of eye margin 0.3 – 0.4 x eye height (Fig. 51 C). Thorax. kepst s 1 + 2, the lower posterior less developed than in males, and lower anterior not developed (Fig. 51 A). Legs. Fore femur av setae absent. Mid femur with 1 av seta on basal fourth, 2 – 3 pv setae on basal third, 1 p seta at middle. Abdomen. Sternite 1 more than 2 x wider than long, with a couple of setulae on posterolateral corners. Sternite 2 – 5 1.5 x – 2 x longer than wide, narrowed posteriorly; sternite 4 the longest, sternite 5 shortest and narrowest; covered with scattered setulae, longer on lateral margins, pair of longest setulae on posterolateral corners. Ovipositor (Fig. 52). Tergite 6 represented by a pair of plates, anteriorly narrowed with anterior margin rounded, plates widely separated posteriorly, slightly pigmented and sclerotized on anterior half (Fig. 52 A); posterior margin with a row of long setae, the setae are absent on membrane. Spiracles 6 th and 7 th both situated in membrane, 6 th close to anterolateral corner of tergite 6, and 7 th on posterior half (Fig. 52 B). Tergite 7 similar to tergite 6 but parallel side, as long as tergite 6, uniformly pigmented and sclerotized, posterior margin with two rows of setulae. Tergite 8 widely divided into a pair of strongly sclerotized broad and short plates continuing along a broad posterior margin, almost half the tergite 7 length, in dorsal view the plates are laterally convex, tapered anteriorly and with rounded apex; in profile (Fig. 52 C) lateral plates parallel sided with sinuous anterior margin; posterior margin with a row of short setulae. Epiproct more than 2 x wider than long, widely notched on posterior margin, with a pair of long setae. Sternites 6 – 7 slightly more than 2 x longer than wide, longer than their respective tergite, constricted at middle, anteriorly tapered (strongly on sternite 7), posterior half of parallel side and almost completely covered with scattered short setulae. Sternite 8 represented by a pair of small plates, tapered anteriorly with a couple of setulae. Hypoproct slightly less than 1.5 x wider than long, posterior margin almost rounded; setulose, longer setae on posterior margin. Cerci not fused with epiproct, as long as hypoproct, in dorsal view expanded on posterior half, in profile parallel sided, without strongly developed spines (Figs. 52 A, C), on posterior half with short setulae and a couple pairs of long setae towards margin. Spermathecae (Fig. 52 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFF6E70B5385FBF9490DFED5.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The female cerci in L. yacochuya sp. nov., are similar to the Nearctic Leucophora maculata (Stein, 1898) (until now, the only known Leucophora species that doesn’t bear recurved spines on the cerci). However, it differs in the wide dorsal separation between the lateral plates of tergites 6 – 7; also, the setulae doesn´t extend onto the lateroventral membranes, not forming the continuous band around segments 6 th – 7 th; the spiracles 7 displaced anteriorly, before the posterior margin of segment 6 th; sternites 6 – 7 longer than wide and with multiples fringes of setulae on posterior region. Griffiths (1996: 1725) interpreted this character (cerci without the strong recurved spines) as an apomorphy, associated doubtless with oviposition behavior and in host association. However, there is still no information about the aforementioned. In males, the lobed pregonite is present only in L. yacochuya sp. nov., L. johnsoni, and L. longilingua, however, the former differs from both species by the shape and setation of sternite 5, by the shape of the surstylus, and the presence of a pair of free paraphallic processes. From L. johnsoni can also be differentiated by the absence of dark marks on cross-veins, and L. longilingua can be segregated by the short proboscis.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFF6E70B5385FBF9490DFED5.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species’ epithet refers to the name “ Yacochuya ”, where the holotype was collected.	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
03AB754CFFF6E70B5385FBF9490DFED5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Neotropical: ARGENTINA (Salta) (Fig. 57 D).	en	Ramírez-Mora, Manuel A., Patitucci, Luciano Damián (2025): Revision of the genus Leucophora (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from South America, with the description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5707 (1): 1-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5707.1.1
