identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82.text	B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leptogaster madangensi Tomasovic 2020	<div><p>Leptogaster madangensi s sp. nov.</p> <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 75B54AF1-7443-4DEC-A434-4DCE928C5434</p> <p>(Figs. 1–4)</p> <p>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.</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY. The name of the species refers to the Madang province where the type has been collected in Papua New Guinea.</p> <p>DESCRIPTION. Length body 1.3 cm, wings 4 mm.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype ♂ is labelled as follows: ‘Canopy mission P.N.G. Madang province Baiteta, FOG AR56 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.</p> <p>Paratypes 12♂, 9♀: same locality as the holotype: 1♂ same data as holotype; 1♂ 1♀, FOG AR52-11, 17.V.1996. 1♂ 1♀, FOG AR42, 12.IV.1996. 3♂ 2♀, FOG AR62, 3.VII.1998. 1♂, FOG AR60, 27.VI.1996. 1♂ 1♀, FOG AR58, 18.V.1996. 2♂ 2♀, FOG AR61, 28.V.1995. 1♂, FOG AR3, 6.VII.1995. 1♀, FOG AR70, 25.VII.1996. 1♂ 1 ♀, FOG AR66, 16.VII.1996 all deposited in the RBINS.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B86C5B21FF9C715EFD8DE8F9F364FC82	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Tomasovic, Guy	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
B86C5B21FF9A715EFD82E83BF413FB1D.text	B86C5B21FF9A715EFD82E83BF413FB1D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leptogaster Meigen 1803	<div><p>Key of the Leptogaster from Papua</p> <p>1. Scutum black, pleura with whitish tomentum........................................................................ 2</p> <p>– Scutum other colour................................................................................................................ 3</p> <p>2. Legs tawny. Wings slightly greyish.................................. L. aruensis Tomasovic, nom. nov.</p> <p>– Legs yellow and black. Wings with a black spot............................... L. tarsalis Walker, 1861</p> <p>3. Thorax reddish-yellow, wings with a brown black strip at the tip. Legs tawny, femora black at the tip; tarsi black......................................................................... L. rufithorax Meijere, 1913</p> <p>– Thorax shining brown, with three darker strips. Wings clear and lightly brown at the tip. Legs wholly yellowish................................................................................... L. madangensis sp. nov.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B86C5B21FF9A715EFD82E83BF413FB1D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Tomasovic, Guy	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
