Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981

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 : 34

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6158402

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scientific name

Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981
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Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981 View in CoL

( Figs. 2H View FIGURE 2 A – I , 3G View FIGURE 3 A – H , 6D–E View FIGURE 6 A – F , 13 View FIGURE 13 A – E. L )

Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981: 161 View in CoL . Holotype male, COSTA RICA: Guanacaste (CAS). Coville et al., 2000: 28, 39–41, 47; Evenhuis and Greathead, 1999: 209.

Type material examined. Holotype: COSTA RICA: Guanacaste: 15 km SW Bagaces [10.53, -85.25], Comelco, 25.ii.1975 (R. Coville coll.), 1 male ( CAS) [California Academy of Sciences type n° 13728, trap n° M402C29C3, emerged 19.iii.1975, Host: Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) tenoctitlan ]; paratypes: COSTA RICA: Heredia: La Selva, 4 km SE Puerto Viejo [10.47, -84.02], 26.vii.1980 (R.E. Coville coll.), 1 female ( CAS) [ex Trap-nest coll., emerged 21.viii.1980, Trap nº C201Fcl]; idem, 16.vii.1980 (R.E. Coville coll.), 1 female ( USNM) [ex Trap-nest coll., emerged 17.viii.1980, Trap nº CIFC 3]; Guanacaste: 4 km NW Cañas [10.43, -85.10], La Pacifica, 14.ii.1975, (R. Coville coll.), 1 male ( CAS) [emerged 10.iii.1975 –trap nº M507cl].

Diagnosis. Lepidophora trypoxylona is similar to L. culiciformis (see diagnosis of L. culiciformis ) but differs in having frons with spatulate dark brown, translucent and white scales; scape and pedicel with short and thin dark brown bristles; basicosta with tuft of long brown and white scales; coxa II with long light and dark hairs; coxa III with bristles on anterior and posterodorsal surfaces; femur I with apical bristles on dorsal and anterodorsal surfaces; femur III with brown and white scales on posterior surface; anterior margin of abdominal segment I with long dark brown hairs; and tergite VI with central tuft of short and spatulate white scales.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Lepidophora

Loc

Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981

Rodrigues, Paula Fernanda Motta & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker 2013
2013
Loc

Lepidophora trypoxylona

Coville 2000: 28
Evenhuis 1999: 209
2000
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