Lenkokroeberia Prado

Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio & Hernández-Ortiz, Vicente, 2012, The new genus Acrocephalomyia, and a new species of Ropalomera from Costa Rica, with additional records for other Mesoamerican species (Diptera: Ropalomeridae), Zootaxa 3478, pp. 553-569 : 566

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282346
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6180134
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F94857-FFB2-C560-41A2-D3F210B4FAF0
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lenkokroeberia Prado
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Lenkokroeberia Prado View in CoL

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

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

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

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ropalomeridae