Pelecorhynchus kroeberi ( Lindner, 1925 )

Llanos, Lorena, Gonzalez, Christian R. & Córdoba, Mónica Saldarriaga, 2015, Revision of the New World species of the genus Pelecorhynchus Macquart, 1850 (Diptera: Pelecorhynchidae), Zootaxa 3955 (2), pp. 188-210 : 198

Pelecorhynchus kroeberi ( Lindner, 1925)

Coenura kroeberi Lindner, 1925: 23 . Type locality: Chile, Magallanes, Punta Arenas. Type ♀, destroyed in Hamburg.

Diagnosis and comments. As we did not study any specimens that fit the description of P. k roe b e r i and the type is destroyed, the following diagnosis is based on the original description (with terminology updated based on Cumming & Wood (2009)). Body color brown. Scutellum with brown hairs, with white pleural hairs. Legs redbrown, darkening distally on the tarsi. Tergite 1 with a pair of white spots, tergites 2, 3 and 4 with wide white spots reaching the lateral margins. According to Pechuman (1967), it is similar to P. penai , since both species have small white spots on the lateral margin of the tergite 1, a character not observed in other species of Pelecorhynchus . Mackerras & Fuller (1942) stated that it is similar to P. elegans , but differs in that P. k roe b e r i has white hairs on the pleura, scutellum with distal margin with brown hairs, and legs reddish brown.

Geographic distribution. Known only from type locality, Región de Magallanes.