Lekrugeria Navás, 1929

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Genus Lekrugeria Navás, 1929

Lekrugeria Navás, 1929: 40 . Type species: Lekrugeria lineata Navás, 1929: 41 (monotypy).

Lekrugeria Navás, 1929 : U. Aspöck & H. Aspöck 1986 (revision).

Generic characters. The adults of Lekrugeria are characterized by the following characters: the length of antennal scape as long as proximal four to five flagellomeres; the globular postocular region; the forewing not falcate, with inconspicuous pterostigma; the forewing with a long or two short gradate series of crossveins; the presence of scalelike modified hairs on the inner side of the procoxae in female; the male gonocoxite 9 swollen subdistally, forming a broad plate in ventral view, with a tiny pointed tip directed medially; and the complex of male fused gonocoxites, gonapophyses and gonostyli 10 (= paramere-mediuncus complex) with a basal sclerite, which is composed of a rectangular sclerite with paired narrow lobes directed posterolaterally, and a small bow-shaped structure formed by bundled bristles.

Distribution. Burkina Faso; Egypt; Gambia; India; Myanmar; Nepal; Nigeria; Pakistan; Sudan.

Notes. This genus previously included three species, i.e. Lekrugeria lineata Navás, 1929 , from India, Lekrugeria koenigi Esben-Petersen, 1915 , from Burkina Faso, Egypt, Gambia, Nigeria and Sudan, and Lekrugeria nepalica U. Aspöck & H. Aspöck, 1986 , from Myanmar and Nepal (U. Aspöck & Randolf 2014). Moreover, an undetermined species of this genus was recorded from Pakistan (U. Aspöck & Randolf 2014). The distribution of Lekrugeria comprises large parts of the northern Afrotropical realm, along the sub-Saharan belt, southern Palaearctic parts of Asia and the Oriental region.