Austroleptis Hardy, 1920

Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Santos, Charles Morphy D. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2020, Endemism within endemism: a new species of Austroleptis Hardy, 1920 (Diptera Austroleptidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest highlands, Zootaxa 4803 (3), pp. 483-494 : 484

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:90DE8AC6-8DC5-4776-B611-FD944C0FF645
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10564659
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE8782-4427-FFEC-FF67-E2046DDC673F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Austroleptis Hardy, 1920
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Austroleptis Hardy, 1920 View in CoL View at ENA

Austroleptis Hardy, 1920: 126 View in CoL . Type species, Austroleptis rhyphoides Hardy, 1920 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis (from Fachin et al. 2018). Antenna with 3–5 flagellomeres, basal flagellomere enlarged, laterally compressed, distal flagellomeres not narrow and elongated. Clypeus subtriangular, recessed beneath head. M 3 missing or reduced to a small stump between M 2 and M 4 emerging from the discal cell. Male gonocoxal apodeme absent. Female segments 6–8 much narrower than preceding abdominal segments, tergite 8 divided, cercus one-segmented.