A new genus and species within the tribe Earomyiini (Diptera, Lonchaeidae)
Author
Macgowan, Iain
text
Zootaxa
2017
4216
3
201
224
journal article
37361
10.5281/zenodo.231764
56021fb5-820d-4ae5-bdb1-ce4420f10aa3
1175-5326
231764
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Fulgenta ponti
(
Morge, 1980
)
Lamprolonchaea ponti
Morge, 1980
, p328,
comb. nov.
Notes on the paratype; thorax dark emerald green, scutellar disc with slightly more bluish reflections. Basal and second tarsomeres clear yellow, others darkened but not black just darker yellow. Lunule with ground colour orange-brown, covered with silver pollinosity, arista short plumose, plumes approximately 2.5x width of arista. Wings slightly yellowish, calypteres and their fringes entirely white.
This
species was also described by
Morge
(1980)
on the basis of female specimens collected in
TANZANIA
,
Marangu
, (
3° 17' S
.
37° 31' E
.)
1–20.iii.1959
by Edwin Lindner. In the key to species provided to the three then known African
Lamprolonchaea
species (
Morge, 1980
)
L. ponti
is keyed out as having “ Arista deutlich gefiedert” (arista significantly feathery). On the basis of the short plumose arista this species is also assigned to the genus
Fulgenta