Lepidophora secutor Walker 1857
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Paula Fernanda Motta
name: Lamas, Carlos José Einicker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Lepidophora
Lepidophora secutor

description: Lepidophora secutor Walker, 1857
(Figs. 2G, 3F, 6C, 12)
Lepidophora secutor Walker, 1857: 145. Holotype male, BRAZIL: Amazonas or Pará (BMNH). Osten Sacken, 1887: 160; Painter, 1925: 119 –121, 125; Paramonov, 1949: 631, 633, 638, 640; D’Andretta and Carrera, 1952: 296; Hull, 1973: 238; Painter and Painter, 1974: 89, 92; Painter et al., 1978: 38.21; Evenhuis and Greathead, 1999: 209.
Type material examined. Holotype: BRAZIL: Amaz [Amazonas or Pará], 1 male (BMNH).
Other material examined. VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Rio Mavaca Camp [2.03, -65.10], 65º06' W 2º2' N, 150 m., 16–27.iii.1989 (D.A. Grimaldi coll.), 1 male (AMNH) [Phipps FUDECI Exped. By American Museum of Natural History]; COLOMBIA: Amazonas: Rio Caquetá [1.92, -76.67], 9.x.1956 (D.J. Taylor coll.), 1 male (BMNH) [B.M. 1954–110]; BRAZIL: Amazonas: São Gabriel da Cachoeira [-0.13, -67.09], Rio Negro, 10.ix.1927 (J.F. Zikán coll.), 1 female (MZUSP); Pará: 1954 (W.M. Mann coll.), 1 female (USNM) [W.M. Mann, Stanford Expedition, USNM Bombyliidae Collection]; Bragança-Ajuruteua [-1.05, -46.77], 1–4.ix.1988 (F.F. Ramos coll.), 1 female (MPEG) [Armadilha 1,6m suspensa]; Ponta de Pedras [-1.39, -48.87], 06.iii.1979 (M.F. Torres coll.), 1 male (MPEG); Belém [-1.46, -48.50], v.1924 (F.X. Williams coll.), 1 female (USNM); São Domingos do Capim, SESP, Rio Capim [-1.67, -47.78], 2 females (MPEG); Amazonas: Manaus, ZF 3, km 23 [-2.40, -59.87], 01.ix.1987 (M.V. Garcia coll.), 1 female (USNM) [3]; idem, BR 174, km 45 [-2.57, -60.03], 9.iv.1982 (E.L. Oliveira coll.), 1 male (INPA); idem, Est. Aleixo km 4 [-3.11, -60.02], 21.i.1976 (W.E. Kar coll.), 1 female (INPA) [0235]; idem, BR [-2.57, -60.03], x.1994 (Henriques coll.), 1 female (INPA); idem, Campus Univers. [-3.11, -60.02], 9.xii.1979 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 1 female and 1 male (INPA); idem, idem, 31.iii.1979 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 1 female (INPA); idem, idem, 11.vii.1979 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 1 female (INPA) [AR: Malaise]; idem, idem, 9.xii.1978 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 1 female (INPA); idem, idem, 9.ix.1978 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 1 female (INPA) [AR: Malaise]; idem, idem, 2.xii.1978 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 2 males (INPA); idem, idem, 25.xi.1978 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 1 male (INPA); idem, idem, 4.xi.1978 (J.A. Rafael coll.), 1 male (INPA) [AR: Malaise]; capoeira ton stubbst. 101?, 28.x.1924 (Melim S.V. coll.?), 1 male (USNM) [Amaz. Exp. 1923-25]; Iranduba, Rio Solimões, Ilha da Manchataria [-3.25, -60.10], 16.x.1991 (M.V. Garcia coll.), 1 female (INPA) [735–2]; idem, 29.xi.1991 (M.V. Garcia coll.), 1 female (INPA) [911–1]; Rio Solimões [-3.25, -58.97], 3º15' S 58º58' W, 16.x.1991 (M.V. Garcia coll.), 1 male (USNM) [736–2]; Pará: Tucuruí [-3.70, -49.70], Rio Tocantins, Canoal, 28–31.iii.1984, 1 female (MPEG) [Armadilha 1,6m suspensa]; PERU: LOCALITY UNKNOWN: 8.viii.22, 1 female (ZMHB) [Rictiriani G. Te ssm a n n S. G.– Lepidophora secutor Wlk. det. J.C. Hall–Zool. Mus. Berlin]; Loreto: Iquitos [-3.75, -73.25], 28.i.1924, 1 female (AMNH) [F. locu–H. Bassler Collection Acc. 33591]; BRAZIL: Pará: Serra Norte, Rio Salobo [-5.90, -49.88], 24.ii.1984 (M.F. Torres coll.), 1 male (MPEG); PERU: Amazonas: Pucallpa [-6.14, -78.38], 10.i.1964 (J. Schunke coll.), 1 male (BMNH) [B.M. 1964–686]; BRAZIL: Acre: Senador Giomard, Rio Iquiri [-10.17, -67.83], 1 male (MZUSP) [63222–Acre Iquiri Exp. Dep. Zool.]; Rondônia: Ji-Paraná [-10.83, -61.97], 15.viii.1984 (R.B. Neto coll.), 1 female (MPEG); Mato Grosso: Ribeirão Cascalheira [-12.83, -51.78], 12º50’S 51º47’W, 23.iii.1968 (O.W. Richards coll.), 1 female (BMNH) [B.M. 1968–260]; Goiás: Campinas [-14.33, -49.13], 1936 (R. Spitz coll.), 1 female (MZUSP) [161]; Mato Grosso: Cáceres [-16.06, -57.68], 11.xii.1984 (C. Elias leg), 1 female (DZUP) [POLONOROESTE–DPTº ZOOL. UF–PARANÁ]; Espírito Santo: Guarapari [-20.67, -40.50], ix.1960 (M. Alvarenga leg), 1 male (DZUP) [DZUP 206490]; LOCALITY UNKNOWN: 21.xi.1982 (Ulysses Barbosa coll.), 1 male (INPA); 18.x.1982 (Ulysses Barbosa coll.), 1 male (INPA); 1 male (ZMHB) [Lepidophora secutor Wlk. Tevas – Zool. Mus. Berlin].
Diagnosis. Anterior margin of pronotum with long and thin dark scales; scutum with short golden, dark brown and white scales; posterior margin of scutellum with short golden scales; wings with distal 1/3 completely hyaline; femur I with short and spatulate brown scales on posterior surface; abdomen clavate; abdominal segment V with lateral long dark brown scales only on distal 1/3.
description: Published as part of Rodrigues, Paula Fernanda Motta & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2013, A Revision of the New World genus Lepidophora Westwood, 1835 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Ecliminae) with a key to the species, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 3682 (1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/284101