Leptodromia Sinclair & Cumming 2000
Creators: name: Barros, Luana M.
name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
name: De Freitas-Silva, Rafael A. P.
name: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Hybotidae
Leptodromia

description: Key to species of Leptodromia Sinclair & Cumming, 2000   
 1 Pleura with broad, brown transverse upper stripe from lateral margin of antepronotum to laterotergite (Fig. 23).......................................... L. lineata sp. nov.   
—— Pleura with vertical spot on anepisternum (Fig. 27), or without dark markings (Fig. 1) or pleura mostly completely darkly coloured (Fig. 9)........................................................................................................................ 2  
2 Scutum with dark spots or stripes (Figs 2, 10, 29).................................................................... 3  
—— Scutum without dark spots or stripes (Figs 6, 14)..................................................................... 7  
3 Pleura yellow without dark markings (Figs 1, 30); abdominal terga pale posteriorly with dark anterior margin extending medially (Figs 2, 35)................................................................................................................. 4  
—— Pleura yellow with dark markings (Fig. 3) or mostly darkly coloured (Fig. 9); abdominal terga mostly dark, without dark medial stripe (Fig. 9)................................................................................................................. 5  
 4 Scutal spots oval, not extended narrowly anteriorly (Fig. 33); antepronotum yellow.............................................................................. L. t-maculatum sp. nov.   
 —— Scutal spots extended narrowly anteriorly (Fig. 2); antepronotum brown....................................................................................... L. bickeli sp. nov.   
 5 Pleura mostly completely darkly coloured, except proepisternum yellow (Fig. 9)..................................................................... L. castanea sp. nov.   
—— Pleura with dark spot confined to posterior half of anepisternum (Figs 3, 26, 27).................................................................................................... 6  
 6 Large dark spot on anepisternum extending to dorsal margin (Figs 26, 27); arista-like stylus less than half-length of postpedicel (Figs 28, 29)......................................................................... L. nebulosa sp. nov.   
 —— Small dark spot on anepisternum not extending to dorsal margin (Fig. 3); arista-like stylus more than half-length of postpedicel [males only]............................................................ L. bimaculata (Bezzi, 1904)   
 7 Antenna completely brown with microtrichia; hind femur with row of strong, dark anteroventral setae; abdominal terga with pale lateral spots [females only] (Fig. 5)........................ L. bimaculata (Bezzi, 1904)   
 —— Antenna brown, except inner margin of scape and pedicel paler and shiny (Fig. 12); hind femur without strong, dark anteroventral setae (Fig. 15); abdominal terga with pale posterior margin [males, females] (Fig. 16)............................................ L. immaculata sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Barros, Luana M., Sinclair, Bradley J., De Freitas-Silva, Rafael A. P. & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2024, Revision of the genus Leptodromia Sinclair & Cumming, 2000 (Diptera: Hybotidae: Ocydromiinae), with the description of six new species, pp. 133-150 in Records of the Australian Museum 76 (3) on page 135, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.76.2024.1897, http://zenodo.org/record/13229045