A Revision of the New World genus Lepidophora Westwood, 1835 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Ecliminae) with a key to the species Author Rodrigues, Paula Fernanda Motta Author Lamas, Carlos José Einicker text Zootaxa 2013 3682 1 1 44 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.1.1 e681728d-d30b-45ad-a554-dd5c01649548 1175-5326 284101 6D48EE4D-05EA-4A2D-88A6-6FBBEA9FD737 Lepidophora Westwood, 1835 Lepidophora Westwood, 1835 : 447 . Type species: Ploas aegeriiformis Gray, 1832 [= Toxophora lepidocera Wiedemann, 1828 ], designated by monotypy; Macquart, 1840 : 119 ; Guérin-Ménéville, 1844 : 538 ; Macquart, 1846 : 350 ; Bigot, 1857 : 292 ; Walker, 1857 : 145 ; Bigot, 1858 : 585 ; Osten Sacken, 1858 : 25 , 44; Loew, 1860 : 247 , 270; Osten Sacken, 1877 : 229 , 265; Osten Sacken, 1878 : 94 ; Osten Sacken, 1886 : 76 ; Osten Sacken, 1887 : 160 ; Bigot, 1892 : 347 ; Coquillett, 1894 : 92 ; Johnson, 1895 : 325 ; Williston, 1901 : 294 ; Aldrich, 1905 : 240 ; Bezzi, 1908 : 30 ; Kertész, 1909 : 90 ; Verrall, 1909 : 509 –511; Coquillett, 1910 : 559 ; Graenicher, 1910 : 33 , 35; Johnson, 1910 : 747 ; Becker, 1913 : 437 ; Cockerell, 1913 : 231 ; Graenicher, 1913 : 179 ; Johnson, 1913 : 58 ; Cockerell, 1914 : 234 ; White, 1916 : 189 , 190; Bezzi, 1924 : 350 ; Cole et al. , 1924 : 184 , 190; Painter, 1925 : 119 –127; Hallock and Parker, 1926 : 6 ; Edwards, 1930 : 164 ; Painter, 1930 : 804 ; Curran, 1931 : 43 ; Paramonov, 1931 : 119 ; Curran, 1934 : 196 , 197; Brimley, 1938 : 341 ; Painter, 1939 : 43 –45; Paramonov, 1939 : 65 ; Paramonov, 1949 : 631 –643; D’Andretta and Carrera, 1950 : 351 –353, 373; D’Andretta and Carrera, 1952 : 296 ; Gibson and Carrillo, 1959 : 169 ; Painter and Painter, 1962 : 50 –53; François, 1964 : 323 –326; Painter and Painter, 1965 : 425 –426; Krombein, 1967: 5, 69, 89, 150, 202, 255, 395, 396, 408–410; Hall, 1969 : 2 , 3; Liepa, 1969 : 8 , 18; Hennig, 1973 : 42 ; Hull, 1973 : 236 –240; Painter and Painter, 1974 : 89 –94; Hall, 1976 : 3 , 119–120; Merle, 1975 : 9 , 59, 151; Lachaise and Bowden, 1976 : 331 ; Painter et al., 1978 : 38.21; Rohlfein and Ewald, 1979 : 222 ; Hall, 1981a : 591 , 592, 597; Hall, 1981b : 161 –163; Theodor, 1983 : 83 ; Greathead, 1988 : 14 , 16–20; Yeates, 1994 : 21 , 28, 48, 64, 72–74, 82, 113, 125, 144, 148, 150, 151, 163, 183, 189, 190; Yeates and Greathead, 1997 : 166 , 170, 179; Evenhuis and Greathead, 1999 : 208 , 209; Sabrosky, 1999 : 173 ; Coville et al. , 2000 : 28 , 39–41, 47; Lamas and Lopes, 2004 : 1 –4; Hernández, 2007 : 145 , 156, 158; Kits et al. , 2008 : 2 –4, 6, 27. Diagnosis . Male dichoptic, eyes separated by distance equivalent to width of the ocellar tubercle ( Fig. 1A ); ocellar tubercle of the female with short and thin proclinate bristles; postpedicel with scales ( Fig. 2 ); proboscis shorter than antenna; occiput with long and thin brown bristles, two kinds of scales, thin and spatulate; pronotum well developed; anepisternum with bristles on upper and posterior thirds; meropleurite with long hairs; scutellum with two kinds of scales, thin and spatulate; femur I with long scales on posterior surface, longitudinal row of bristles on posterodorsal surface, apical bristles on anteroventral and anterodorsal surfaces; femur III with dark scales on anterior and dorsal surfaces, apical crown of bristles; tibia I with longitudinal row of bristles on posterior surface; tibia II with dark scales on anterior surface, longitudinal row of bristles on posterior surface; abdominal segment I with long light hairs on anterior margin.