Lamprolonchaea

Blacket, Mark J. & Malipatil, Mallik B., 2010, Redescription of the Australian metallic-green tomato fly, Lamprolonchaea brouniana (Bezzi) (Diptera: Lonchaeidae), with notes on the Australian Lamprolonchaea fauna, Zootaxa 2670, pp. 31-51 : 47

Additional Lamprolonchaea species in Australia

( Figs. 45–50 )

A number of other Lamprolonchaea species have been recorded from Australia ( Pitkin 1996); all of these species differ from L. brouniana in possessing a smooth frons. Below we provide a key to known Australian Lamprolonchaea based upon published species descriptions:

Figures

FIGURES 45 – 50. Adult male frons. 45) L. brouniana, NSW (Sydney, lectotype, AMS K 48703); 46) L. brouniana NSW (Northmead, AMS K 272866, det. D. K. McAlpine); 47) L. fulgida, WA (Bunbury, paratype, AMS K 68374, det. J. F. McAlpine); 48) L. metatarsata, NSW (Iluka Clarence River, AMS K 232435, det. I. MacGowan); 49) L. smaragdi (= L. aurea), Qld (Mosman, AMS K 272837); 50) L. smaragdi (= L. aurea), Qld (Eidsvold, AMS K 272832, mentioned in Bezzi 1923). Scale bar represents 0.5 mm.