taxonID	type	description	language	source
0390CF0E2B1BC502FE3CFAB08CF4FA9F.taxon	description	(Figs 1 – 2)	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1BC502FE3CFAB08CF4FA9F.taxon	materials_examined	Type locality. Philippines, Luzon, Mt. Isarog. Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀, PHILIPPINES, Luzon, Camarines Sur, Mt. Isarog, Pili, 800 m, 1. v. 1965, H. M. Torrevillas lgt. (BPBM). PARATYPES: 2 ♀♀, the same locality label as the holotype, both in BPBM.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1BC502FE3CFAB08CF4FA9F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Head relatively narrow in profile (Fig. 2). Anterior part of thorax not tapered in lateral view (Fig. 2), scutellum in same plane as scutum, at most slightly turned up, apical projection of scutellum shorter than scutellum in middle. Wing streak with diffuse margins. Tibiae and basitarsi of all legs yellow, hind tibia not thickened.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1BC502FE3CFAB08CF4FA9F.taxon	description	Description. Female (holotype): Length: body 3.8 mm (without antenna), wing 3.5 mm. Head (Fig. 1) 1.7 times higher than long in profile and almost twice broader than long in dorsal view. Ocellar triangle distinctly prominent in profile, face, gena and lower postocular area only very narrow in same view. Frontal vitta about 4.5 times narrower than width of head in dorsal view, almost parallel-sided, shining black but with angulate, silverish white hair spots at eye margin just above antennae. Frontal spots narrowly fused with whitish facial stripes being of same width in upper part. Face densely whitish tomentose except narrow longitudinal median triangle. Antenna inserted slightly below middle of frons in profile, yellow, but scape and upper half of basal thickened flagellomeres brownish and arista black plumose. Scape and pedicel of same length, pedicel and basal four flagellomeres forming short oval complex. Darkened part of this complex with series of pale yellow sensory pits. Pedicel projecting on outer as well as inner side into a subtriangular lobe at base of flagellar complex. Densely plumose last flagellomere only slightly longer than rest of antenna. Thorax mostly black and shining, only extreme top of postpronotal callus with reddish brown coloration. Anterior part of scutum strongly arched in lateral view, not gradually tapered (Fig. 2). Thoracic pile mostly dark, brownish black and appressed but contrastingly white and slightly longer in prescutellar area. Prealar semi-circular prominence small but distinct. Pleural hairs whitish, scattered and inconspicuous but anepisternum with broad vertical hair band from snow white semi-appressed hairs continuing with similar hair patch in posterior corner of notopleural area. White hair patch on laterotergite less conspicuous. Scutellum with apical projection reaching about half length of scutellum in middle. Scutellum including apical projection slightly upturned above plane of scutum. Lateral margin of scutellum including apical projection with short and apically setose cornicles arranged in 1 – 2 rows. Wing almost hyaline, with broad but diffuse, slightly brownish transverse streak from brown stigma to posterior wing margin. Halter yellowish brown, basal part of knob more darkened. Legs predominantly yellow, dark brown pattern confined to fore femur (except both ends) and broad preapical bands on mid and hind femora. Abdomen black, about 1.5 times as long as broad, with maximum width at posterior margin of tergite 4. Abdominal pile inconspicuous, mostly brownish, short and appressed. Male. Unknown. Variability. Both female paratypes are slightly larger (body 4.0 and 4.5 mm, wing 3.5 and 3.8 mm) than the holotype. Slight differences were found also in the extent of dark areas on flagellomeres and intensity of darkening of the transverse wing band.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1BC502FE3CFAB08CF4FA9F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name refers to the relatively short (= brevis in Latin) apical projection (= spina in Latin) on the scutellum; adjective.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1BC502FE3CFAB08CF4FA9F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Only known from the Philippines (Luzon).	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1CC500FE43FAEA8CC2FD58.taxon	description	(Figs 3 – 4)	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1CC500FE43FAEA8CC2FD58.taxon	materials_examined	Type locality. Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Valoka. Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, New Britain, Valoka, caught in Malaise trap, 7. vii. 1962, Noona Dan Expedition, 1961 – 1962 (ZMUC). PARATYPES: 1 J 1 ♀, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Bismarck Archipelago, Dyaul Island, Sumuna, 6. iii. 1962, Noona Dan Expedition, 1961 – 1962 (ZMUC). Male paratype with missing abdomen and female paratype without head.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1CC500FE43FAEA8CC2FD58.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Head more rounded in profile than in preceding species (Fig. 3). Anterior part of thorax tapered in lateral view (Fig. 3), apical spine on scutellum stout, as long as scutellum, nearly perpendicular to plane of scutum. Legs predominantly brownish, only mid tibiae and tarsi, and last three tarsomeres of hind tarsi contrastingly pale yellow, hind tibia thickened except for base. Wing band well defined with more contrasting lateral margins.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1CC500FE43FAEA8CC2FD58.taxon	description	Description. Female (holotype). Length: body 4.5 mm, wing 3.2 mm. Head more rounded than in preceding species, only 1.4 times higher than long in profile and about 1.6 times broader than long in dorsal view. Eye facets uniform, not enlarged in upper part of eyes. Eyes separated by relatively broad frons occupying slightly more than ¼ of head width in dorsal view. Ocellar triangle only slightly prominent in lateral view, vertex beyond it unusually long, about as long as ocellar triangle. Postocular area and gena narrow but visible in profile. Frons shining black, with a pair of whitish tomentose spots at eye margin above antennae. Face deeply emarginate, with short whitish hairs being denser along eye margin. Gena and postgena with narrow whitish hair stripe along eye margin. Antenna yellowish, arista densely black plumose. Pedicel and thickened basal four flagellomeres shaped as almost round complex, this brownish in upper half, yellow sensory pits large, arranged in transverse rows. Thorax narrowed anteriorly in profile, anterior part of scutum in same plane as pronotum. Scutum black and densely punctate, postpronotal callus reddish brown. Surface pile very short and appressed, mixed from reddish brown and whitish hairs, more white in presutural and prescutellar areas, somewhat longer and almost exclusively white on pleura. Scutellum with long apical spine reaching the length of scutellum in middle. Scutellum almost upright, angle with level of scutum 90 – 100 °. Lower lateral margin of scutellum and its spine bordered by a row of small setose cornicles. Vertical band of dense short whitish hairs on anepisternum less defined than in preceding species. Wing with brownish transverse band from brown stigma to posterior wing margin. Halter yellow, slightly darkened about middle. Legs with femora brownish, also fore and hind tibiae and basitarsi brown, whereas mid tibia and tarsi are contrastingly pale yellow. Compared with preceding species, hind tibia thickened, in middle about twice as thick as hind basitarsus. Abdomen reddish brown, distinctly clavate, markedly dilated in area of segment 4, only 1.2 times longer than its maximum width. Abdominal pile inconspicous, whitish, short and appressed, denser at base and disc of abdomen. Whitish hairs on venter slightly longer, more distinct on central area. Male (paratype). Length: body 4.5 mm, wing 3.3 mm. Head almost round in profile, only slightly higher than long and about 1.6 times broader than long in dorsal view. Eyes contiguous in long distance, facets in upper two thirds contrastingly large. Ocellar triangle prominent in lateral view, shifted anteriorly and vertex beyond it about as long as ocellar triangle. Upper frons in front of anterior ocellus very small, almost indistinct. Lower frons subtriangular, densely covered with snow white appressed hairs, only narrow mid line more blackish. White pile continuing along eye margin also on face. Face deeply emarginate, shortly white. Gena and postocular area indistinct in lateral view. Antenna with black and densely plumose arista, arista nearly twice as long as rest of antenna. Basal antennal complex as in female, its darkening less contrasting but dense pale sensory pits distinct. Thorax tapered toward head as in female, anterior part of presutural area of scutum nearly in same plane as pronotum. Postpronotal callus and narrow subnotopleural line yellowish brown, postalar callus partly brownish. Thoracic pile short, white and mostly appressed, longer on pleura except bare area of anepisternum. Scutellum with long terminal spine as in female but not as upright, angle between prescutellar area and scutellum greater than 90 °. Wing and legs as in female including thickened hind tibia. Abdomen missing. Variability. All the type specimens demonstrate well the diagnostc characters of P. longispinus sp. nov., the hind tibia is thickened in both sexes. The head of the male paratype, with contiguous eyes, is almost round in profile, only slightly higher than long. Further intraspecific variability was not recorded.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1CC500FE43FAEA8CC2FD58.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name refers to the long apical spine on the scutellum; adjective.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
0390CF0E2B1CC500FE43FAEA8CC2FD58.taxon	distribution	Distribution. All the type specimens were collected in Papua New Guinea, holotype in New Britain and paratypes in Bismarck Archipelago, Dyaul Island, in common with Lophoteles plumula; see JAMES (1977) and comparative material.	en	Rozkošný, Rudolf (2013): Two new species of Lophoteles including the first record of this genus in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1): 339-346, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740798
