Lispe leucospila
- 1. Centre for Environmental Research and Studies, Jazan University, P. O. Box 2095, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 2. Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, PO Box 9004, Abha- 61413, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. mohd _ robiya @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3323 - 3623
- 3. National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences, Entomology Section, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, UK. john. deeming @ museumwales. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6703 - 8180
Description
Lispe leucospila (Wiedemann 1830)
Coenosia leucospila Wiedemann 1830: 441.
Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993). It was described from “Ostindien” [= East Indies]. In the Middle East is recorded from Yemen (Pont 1980).
Taxonomic remarks. This species resembles L. pectinipes Becker and is separable from it by characters of the male genitalia, as figured in Pont, (1991: 354). All of the numerous specimens that we have seen from Arabia have proved, upon dissection to be L. pectinipes. Pont (1991:353–354) examined material previously recorded as L. leucospila by van Emden (1948) and found it to be distinct from it, but of the leucospila complex of species or forms. Since no specimens are available to confirm the present record, we regard the record of Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993) as being suspect. However, the fact that no other specimens of L. leucospila are known from the Arabian Peninsula does not exclude the possibility that it exists or has existed there.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wiedemann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Muscidae
- Genus
- Lispe
- Species
- leucospila
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lispe leucospila (Wiedemann, 1830) sec. Dawah, Abdullah & Deeming, 2020
References
- Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1830) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten (concl.). Vol. 2. in der Schulzischen Buchhandlung, Hamm, xii + 684 pp.
- Abu-Zoherah, R., Al-Taher, K. & Tilkian, S. (1993) List of Insects Recorded from Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Agriculture and Water, National Agriculture and Water Research Centre, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, 394 pp.
- Pont, A. C. (1980) 85 Family Muscidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 721 - 761.
- Pont, A. C. (1991) A review of the Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 12, 312 - 265.
- van Emden, F. I. (1948) Diptera: Muscidae. In: Expedition to South-West Arabia 1937 - 1938. Vol. I. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 161 - 175.