Genus POUEBO n. gen. Type species: Pouebo symmetricauda n. sp. ETYMOLOGY. — Pouebo is a place name of indigenous origin, Pouébo, in northeastern New Caledonia, near a collecting site for the genus. The gender is feminine. DIAGNOSIS. — This generic diagnosis is based on a single included species and emphasizes characters considered to be of generic importance. Length <2.0 mm; vertex not excavated between ocellar tubercle; male face and clypeus wide, male anterior eye facets enlarged; scape bare; first flagellomere subrectangular; arista dorsoapical; thorax rather short, rounded; mesonotum not flattened; single pair ac present; male with 2 strong posterior dc setae, and 2-3 weak hair-like setae anteriad, female with 4 strong dc; scutellum with single pair setae only; legs gracile; femora and tibiae bare of major setae; wing vein M unbranched and with gentle bend towards R 4+5 beyond dm-cu; tergum 7 forming short hypopygial peduncle, and tergum 7 setose; sternum 8 spatulate, with long basal extension, hypopygial foramen basal, not left lateral; epandrium rather short, dark brown; hypandrium with hood, and with left lateral arm crossing under phallus; phallus (= aedeagus) much longer than hypandrium; surstylus enlarged with modified setae; cercus narrow and elongate; female oviscapt with each hemitergite (formed from tergum 10) separate and with 2 strong apical setae; female cercus elongate, digitiform, extending beyond tergum 10. REMARKS. — Pouebo comprises a single species P. symmetricauda, known only from recent Malaise trap samples taken at two mid-elevation sites in northern New Caledonia. It is perhaps surprising that the genus is not known from southern New Caledonia, especially the well-sampled Mt. Koghis and Rivière Bleue sites near Nouméa. These two sites combined have more than 50 % of the New Caledonian fauna in both Sciapodinae and Dolichopodinae (for discussion on relative collecting intensity of New Caledonia sites, see Bickel 2002). Possibly Pouebo is restricted to northern New Caledonia.

Published as part of Bickel, Daniel J., 2008, Pouebo (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a remarkable new genus from New Caledonia, with secondary symmetry in the male postabdomen, pp. 49-56 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197 on pages 50-51