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Lispe cana

Description

29. Lispe cana (Walker)

Anthomyia cana Walker, 1849: 929. Holotype male, “New Holland” (= Australia), in BMNH (seen).

Lispe cana; Pont, 1989: 693; Shinonaga et al., 1991: 332.

Diagnosis. Body covered with a silvery-grey pollen; frons strongly silvery in male and golden in female, postpedicel very short; vibrissa vestigial in male; arista short, enlarged at base; palpus very broad at apex, spoon-shaped and with silver/golden pollen; 3 pairs of postsutural dorsocentrals, sometimes with an extra short seta in female between 1st and 2nd dorsocentrals; legs silvery-grey, femoro-tibial joints and tarsi reddish-brown; male with hind tarsomere 1 enlarged; abdomen strongly silvery with no brown marks or with a median spot and two round lateral spots on tergite 5 when viewed from above; tergite 5 with 4 pairs of lateral discal setae and 6–7 pairs of apicals.

Material examined: MNHN: New Caledonia: Hienghène: 21–22.ii.1978, H. Kurahashi, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Shinonaga det.

NSMT: New Caledonia: Hienghène: 21–22.ii.1978, H. Kurahashi, 1 ♂, 8 ♀, Shinonaga det.

BPBM: New Caledonia: Pouébo: 20–100 m, 3.ii.1964, 1 ♂, 2 ♀, R. Straatman. Isle of Pines: 24.x.1940, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, F.X. W[illiams].

Comments. First recorded from Hienghène by Shinonaga et al. (1991). The species was keyed and redescribed by Malloch (1923b).

Distribution. Australia (NSW), Indonesia (Maluku), Lord Howe I., New Caledonia (New Caledonia, Isle of Pines), PNG (PNG), Rennell I., Solomon Is, Western Samoa.

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 pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094189

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , BPBM , MNHN , NSMT
Event date
1940-10-24 , 1978-02-21
Verbatim event date
1940-10-24/1964-02-03 , 1978-02-21/22
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Lispe
Species
cana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Lispe cana (Walker, 1849) sec. Couri, Pont & Daugeron, 2010

References

  • Walker, F. (1849) List of the specimens of Dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. [Part.] Part IV. British Museum, London, pp. 689 - 1172.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Malloch, J. R. (1923 b) Notes on Australian Diptera with descriptions. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 48, 601 - 622.