Lepidophora Westwood, 1835

Rodrigues, Paula Fernanda Motta & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2013, A Revision of the New World genus Lepidophora Westwood, 1835 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Ecliminae) with a key to the species, Zootaxa 3682 (1), pp. 1-44 : 4

Lepidophora Westwood, 1835

Lepidophora Westwood, 1835: 447 . Type species: Ploas aegeriiformis Gray, 1832 [= Toxophora lepidocera Wiedemann, 1828 ], designated by monotypy; Macquart, 1840: 119; Guérin-Ménéville, 1844: 538; Macquart, 1846: 350; Bigot, 1857: 292; Walker, 1857: 145; Bigot, 1858: 585; Osten Sacken, 1858: 25, 44; Loew, 1860: 247, 270; Osten Sacken, 1877: 229, 265; Osten Sacken, 1878: 94; Osten Sacken, 1886: 76; Osten Sacken, 1887: 160; Bigot, 1892: 347; Coquillett, 1894: 92; Johnson, 1895: 325; Williston, 1901: 294; Aldrich, 1905: 240; Bezzi, 1908: 30; Kertész, 1909: 90; Verrall, 1909: 509 –511; Coquillett, 1910: 559; Graenicher, 1910: 33, 35; Johnson, 1910: 747; Becker, 1913: 437; Cockerell, 1913: 231; Graenicher, 1913: 179; Johnson, 1913: 58; Cockerell, 1914: 234; White, 1916: 189, 190; Bezzi, 1924: 350; Cole et al., 1924: 184, 190; Painter, 1925: 119 –127; Hallock and Parker, 1926: 6; Edwards, 1930: 164; Painter, 1930: 804; Curran, 1931: 43; Paramonov, 1931: 119; Curran, 1934: 196, 197; Brimley, 1938: 341; Painter, 1939: 43 –45; Paramonov, 1939: 65; Paramonov, 1949: 631 –643; D’Andretta and Carrera, 1950: 351 –353, 373; D’Andretta and Carrera, 1952: 296; Gibson and Carrillo, 1959: 169; Painter and Painter, 1962: 50 –53; François, 1964: 323 –326; Painter and Painter, 1965: 425 –426; Krombein, 1967: 5, 69, 89, 150, 202, 255, 395, 396, 408–410; Hall, 1969: 2, 3; Liepa, 1969: 8, 18; Hennig, 1973: 42; Hull, 1973: 236 –240; Painter and Painter, 1974: 89 –94; Hall, 1976: 3, 119–120; Merle, 1975: 9, 59, 151; Lachaise and Bowden, 1976: 331; Painter et al., 1978: 38.21; Rohlfein and Ewald, 1979: 222; Hall, 1981a: 591, 592, 597; Hall, 1981b: 161 –163; Theodor, 1983: 83; Greathead, 1988: 14, 16–20; Yeates, 1994: 21, 28, 48, 64, 72–74, 82, 113, 125, 144, 148, 150, 151, 163, 183, 189, 190; Yeates and Greathead, 1997: 166, 170, 179; Evenhuis and Greathead, 1999: 208, 209; Sabrosky, 1999: 173; Coville et al., 2000: 28, 39–41, 47; Lamas and Lopes, 2004: 1 –4; Hernández, 2007: 145, 156, 158; Kits et al., 2008: 2 –4, 6, 27.

Diagnosis. Male dichoptic, eyes separated by distance equivalent to width of the ocellar tubercle ( Fig. 1A ); ocellar tubercle of the female with short and thin proclinate bristles; postpedicel with scales ( Fig. 2 ); proboscis shorter than antenna; occiput with long and thin brown bristles, two kinds of scales, thin and spatulate; pronotum well developed; anepisternum with bristles on upper and posterior thirds; meropleurite with long hairs; scutellum with two kinds of scales, thin and spatulate; femur I with long scales on posterior surface, longitudinal row of bristles on posterodorsal surface, apical bristles on anteroventral and anterodorsal surfaces; femur III with dark scales on anterior and dorsal surfaces, apical crown of bristles; tibia I with longitudinal row of bristles on posterior surface; tibia II with dark scales on anterior surface, longitudinal row of bristles on posterior surface; abdominal segment I with long light hairs on anterior margin.

Figures

FIGURE 1 A – D. Lepidophora culiciformis Walker, 1850: (A) Male head, dorsal view; (B) Female head, dorsal view; (C) Female head, lateral view; (D) Wing.

FIGURE 2 A – I. Antenna of Lepidophora Westwood species: (A) L. acroleuca Painter, 1930; (B) L. culiciformis Walker, 1850; (C) L. cuneata Painter, 1939; (D) postpedicel of L. lepidocera (Wiedemann, 1828); (E) L. lepidocera; (F) L. lutea Painter, 1962; (G) L. secutor Walker, 1857; (H) L. trypoxylona Hall, 1981; (I) L. vetusta Walker, 1857. (Bars = 1 mm)