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Lispe bengalensis

Description

28. Lispe bengalensis (Robineau-Desvoidy)

Limnophora bengalensis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 518. Holotype female, “ Bengale ” [India or Bangladesh], in MNHN (seen).

Lispe tetrastigma Schiner; Hennig, 1960: 458.

Lispe cyrtoneurina; Shinonaga et al., 1991: 332 (misidentification).

Lispe bengalensis; Pont, 1989: 692.

Diagnosis. A large dark species; antenna dark brown, apex of pedicel yellow; palpus brown, reddish at base and dark brown at apex, apex slightly expanded; femora with rows of anteroventral and posteroventral spinules in apical half; abdomen elongated; abdominal syntergite 1+2 with 2 medio-lateral round brown marks, tergites 3 and 4 with 2 lateral light brown marks touching basal and apical margins and leaving a silvery-grey area anterolaterally; tergite 5 with no marks; tergite 5 with 4 long discal and 6 long apical setae.

Material examined: NSMT: New Caledonia: Hienghène: 21–22.ii.1978, 1 ♂, H. Kurahashi.

BPBM: New Caledonia: Hienghène: 10–150 m, 14–17.viii.1979, 1 ♀, G. M. Nishida. Nouméa: Anse Vata, 23.x.1958, 1 ♀ (MNRJ), C.R. Joyce. Oua Tom: 20.ix.1940, 1 ♀ (MNHN), F.X. Williams. Ouano Beach: 12.xi.1958, 1 ♀ (BMNH), C.R. Joyce. Pouébo: 20–100 m, 3.ii.1964, 1 ♀, R. Straatman. Yiambi: NE, 1–50 m, 15.x.1967, 1 ♀, J. & M. Sedlacek. 2 km SE Timbia: Nogue, 0–5 m, 20.ix.1979, sweeping, 1 ♀, W. C. Gagné.

Comments. This species was mistakenly recorded from New Caledonia by Shinonaga et al. (1991) as L. cyrtoneurina Stein, but this identification was later corrected to L. bengalensis (email from Dr Shinonaga, 21 August 2009).

Distribution. Australia (NSW), French Polynesia (Marquesas, Society Is), New Caledonia (New Caledonia); Afrotropical, Oriental and South Palearctic Regions.

Notes

Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 2503 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094189

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References

  • Robineau-Desvoidy, A. J. B. (1830) Essai sur les Myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers Savants a l'Academie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 2, 1 - 813.
  • Hennig, W. (1960) Muscidae. [Part] Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 63 b (Lieferung 213), 433 - 480.
  • Shinonaga, S., Kano, R. & Fauran, P. (1991) Muscid flies of New Caledonia, with description of a new species (Diptera, Muscidae). In: Chazeau, J. & Tillier, S. (eds), Zoologia Neocaledonica, Volume 2. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, (A), 149, 329 - 334.
  • Pont, A. C. (1989) 107. Family Muscidae. Pp. 675 - 699. In: Evenhuis, N. L. (ed.), Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Special Publications of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 86, 1155 pp.