Lenkokroeberia chryserea 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.6180136
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F94857-FFB2-C563-41A2-D522146DFF78
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scientific name	Lenkokroeberia chryserea Prado
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Lenkokroeberia chryserea Prado View in CoL

Lenkokroeberia chryserea Prado 1965 View in CoL , 264. Type-locality: Brazil, Mato Grosso, Salobra (male).

Diagnosis. This species is easily distinguishable from L. ciliata by having a brown abdomen with golden pollinosity on terga 1–5.

Comments. Lenkokroeberia chryserea has been recorded from Oaxaca in Mexico ( Ramírez-García & Hernández-Ortiz 1994), from the states of Aragua, Bolívar, Monagas and Zulia in Venezuela ( Baez 1985), and in the states of São Paulo and Mato Grosso in Brazil ( Prado 1965). Ibáñez-Bernal & Hernández-Ortiz (2010) cited this species from Costa Rica. In the present work we record this species from Guanacaste and Puntarenas in Costa Rica, as well as Quintana Roo and Chiapas in Mexico.

Material examined (verbatim). 4 3, 2 Ƥ. COSTA RICA: GUANACASTE: Liberia, PN Santa Rosa, Sendero Los Patos, 300m, 30/06/2000, D. Briceño, manual, LN359800–313000, 5899, 1 3; Sendero los Borrachos, 300m, 15/08/2001, D. Briceño, manual, LN313000–359800, 64281, 1 3 ( INBIO); S. Cañas Exp. Sta., 6–16/08/1988, F.D. Parker, 1 Ƥ ( USU). PUNTARENAS: Est. San Miguel, Sendero Toma Agua 150m, 27/03/1998, F. Alvarado, LN206100–420400, 50661, 1 3 ( INBIO).

MEXICO: QUINTANA ROO: 3–10 km N Calderitas, STA–SL4, 8 /09/1984, W. Rubink, 1 3 ( USU). CHIAPAS: Carretera V. Carranza-San Cristóbal 1250 m elev., 5/01/1980, WOT traps, swormlure, J Mackley, 1 Ƥ ( USU).