Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937

Jaume-Schinkel, Santiago & Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, 2022, First record of Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937 from the Oriental Region (Diptera, Psychodidae), ZooKeys 1115, pp. 73-79 : 73

Genus Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937

Lepidiella Enderlein 1937: 89. Type species: Lepidiella lanuginosa Enderlein 1937: 89-90, by monotypy and original designation.

Syntomoza Enderlein 1937: 88-89. Type species: Syntomoza Lepidiella niveitarsis Enderlein 1937: 89, by monotypy and original designation.

Kupara Rapp 1945: 310. Type species: Kupara albipeda Rapp 1945: 311, by monotypy and original designation ( Bravo and Santos 2011; Collantes and Hodkinson 2003).

Diagnosis.

Males and females with vertex dorsally expanded; males with or without corniculi, females without corniculi; males and females with 4 rows of facets on eye bridge, antennae with 14 barrel-shaped flagellomeres, flagellomeres 1-11 with a pair of simple digitate ascoids, flagellomeres 12-14 reduced in size and without ascoids; wing vein R4 ending slightly before or at the wing apex; males with multiple apical tenacula on hypopods.

Species included.

Lepidiella albipeda (Rapp, 1945), L. amaliae (Collantes & Martínez-Ortega, 1997), L. cervi (Satchell, 1955), L. flabellata Bravo & Santos, 2011, L. hansoni (Quate, 1996), L. lanuginosa Enderlein, 1937, L. larryi Ibáñez-Bernal, 2010, L. limicornis sp. nov., L. maculosa Araújo & Bravo, 2019, L. matagalpensis (Collantes & Martínez-Ortega, 1988), L. monteveredica (Quate, 1996), L. niveitarsis (Enderlein, 1937), L. olgae Bravo & Araújo, 2013, L. pickeringi (Quate, 1999), L. robusta Bravo & Santos, 2011, L. spinosa Bravo, 2005, L. wagneri Araújo & Bravo, 2019, L. zumbadoi (Quate, 1999).