Fulgenta MacGowan, 2017

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849406
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scientific name	Fulgenta MacGowan, 2017
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An endemic Afrotropical genus with 15 described species ( MacGowan, 2023). In almost all cases only the males can be identified with certainty.

Fulgenta complexa MacGowan, 2017 View in CoL ( Fulgenta View in CoL ): Région des Plateaux: 1 km distance from Adossou GoogleMaps SE of Zogbégan (SE of Badou), at creek Olabè. 7.558N 0.6855E, 520m a.s.l., aspirated from fresh human excrement, 25.4.200 8, leg. M. Tschirnhaus, 1♂.

Only previously known from the holotype collected in Cameroon in 1987 ( MacGowan, 2017) .

Fulgenta plumosa MacGowan, 2017 View in CoL ( Fulgenta View in CoL ): Région des Plateaux: Lomnava GoogleMaps NE of Huimé (NE of Kpalimé), 7.0163N 0.6794E, 295m a.s.l., plantation (cocoa, banana), aspirated from spittle droplets on leaves attracting flies, 18.4.200 8, leg. M. Tschirnhaus, 1♂.

Only previously known from five males captured in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon between 1936 and 2010 ( MacGowan, 2017) .

Fulgenta saegeri MacGowan, 2017 View in CoL ( Fulgenta View in CoL ): Région des Plateaux: Lomnava GoogleMaps NE of Huimé (NE of Kpalimé), 7.0163N 0.6794E, 295m a.s.l., plantation (cocoa, banana), aspirated from spittle droplets on leaves attracting flies, 18.4.200 8, leg. M. Tschirnhaus, 1♂.

Only previously known from four males collected in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1951 and 1952 ( MacGowan, 2017) .