taxonID	type	description	language	source
B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 75 B 54 AF 1 - 7443 - 4 DEC-A 434 - 4 DCE 928 C 5434 (Figs. 1 – 4)	en	Tomasovic, Guy (2020): Description of a new species of Leptogaster Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae) from Papua New Guinea. Belgian Journal of Entomology 108: 1-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13590845
B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS. Species shiny, brown and yellow, small, slender and flimsy. Wings shorter than abdomen. Legs yellow, hind femora with a large distinguishable darker ring. Empodium very fine and small.	en	Tomasovic, Guy (2020): Description of a new species of Leptogaster Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae) from Papua New Guinea. Belgian Journal of Entomology 108: 1-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13590845
B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY. The name of the species refers to the Madang province where the type has been collected in Papua New Guinea.	en	Tomasovic, Guy (2020): Description of a new species of Leptogaster Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae) from Papua New Guinea. Belgian Journal of Entomology 108: 1-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13590845
B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION. Length body 1.3 cm, wings 4 mm. Head. Frons and face narrow. Mystax with 2 – 4 long, very fine and white setae. Proboscis yellowish-brown, palpi small with 1 fine and white hair on tip. Antennae: scape and pedicel small, yellow with clear small fine setae, postpedicel brown slightly longer as the scape and pedicel together, style longer than 3 first segments. Vertex and occiput with grey tomentum. Thorax. Scutum shining brown with three broad darker stripes, one long, fine and black notopleural setae (this last is weak and often away). Pleura white orange. Legs yellow, claw black, empodium very fine and small. Metafemora with a large darker ring. Wings (Fig. 4) lightly brown at the tip, uniformly covered with microtrichia, costa with relatively long white and fine setae. Halter with a long, fine and clear stem, knob with a black spot. Abdomen. Fine and long, shining brown, covered by macrosetae yellowish. Tergite I ♀♀ considerably longer than tergite II and with a central ring yellowish. All tergites with posterior margin yellowish. Male genitalia: brown-dark with fine and sparse small and black setae. Epandrium (Fig. 2) triangular with inward curved and pointed apex. Hypandrium (Fig. 3) with 2 long, fine and black laterally setae. Gonopods displaced to sides of apex of Hypandrium, dististylus lightly curved and sharp to the top, sclerites lightly club-shaped, phallus no studied.	en	Tomasovic, Guy (2020): Description of a new species of Leptogaster Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae) from Papua New Guinea. Belgian Journal of Entomology 108: 1-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13590845
B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype ♂ is labelled as follows: ‘ Canopy mission P. N. G. Madang province Baiteta, FOG AR 56 7. VI. 1996. Leg. Olivier Missa / Holotype Leptogaster madangensis sp. nov. det. G. Tomasovic 2020. The specimen is double mounted (minute pin in block of foam), is in excellent condition, and is deposited in the RBINS. Paratypes 12 ♂, 9 ♀: same locality as the holotype: 1 ♂ same data as holotype; 1 ♂ 1 ♀, FOG AR 52 - 11, 17. V. 1996. 1 ♂ 1 ♀, FOG AR 42, 12. IV. 1996. 3 ♂ 2 ♀, FOG AR 62, 3. VII. 1998. 1 ♂, FOG AR 60, 27. VI. 1996. 1 ♂ 1 ♀, FOG AR 58, 18. V. 1996. 2 ♂ 2 ♀, FOG AR 61, 28. V. 1995. 1 ♂, FOG AR 3, 6. VII. 1995. 1 ♀, FOG AR 70, 25. VII. 1996. 1 ♂ 1 ♀, FOG AR 66, 16. VII. 1996 all deposited in the RBINS.	en	Tomasovic, Guy (2020): Description of a new species of Leptogaster Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae) from Papua New Guinea. Belgian Journal of Entomology 108: 1-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13590845
