Ropalomera Wiedemann

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 : 556-558

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282346
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6180122
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scientific name	Ropalomera Wiedemann
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Ropalomera Wiedemann View in CoL

Ropalomera Wiedemann 1820 View in CoL , ix [1st Ed.]; 1821, ix [2nd Ed.]. Type-species: Dictya clavipes Fabricius, 1805 (by subsequent designation of Lepeletier & Serville 1825: 311); Wiedemann 1824, 17; 1828, 570 (redescription).

Diagnosis. Head: face with rounded protuberance distant from antennal bases, arista bipectinate with long rays. Thorax: postpronotal bristle present; posterior thoracic spiracle with 1–3 bristles; dorsal surface of scutellum weakly concave. Hind tibia slightly compressed and without dense setal brush on ventral margin (complete generic description in Ramírez-García & Hernández-Ortiz (1994) and Kirst & Ale-Rocha (2012)).

Comments. Ropalomera includes sixteen valid species ( Ibáñez-Bernal & Hernández-Ortiz 2010, Kirst & Ale- Rocha, 2012), of which only two had been previously recorded in Central America and Mexico, R. femorata (Fabricius) and R. latiforceps Ramírez-García & Hernández-Ortiz. The following three species are newly recorded for these regions.