Lonchaea dichaeta McAlpine, 1964

Macgowan, Iain, 2018, Definition of the Lonchaea polyhamata species-group (Diptera, Lonchaeidae) with a description of new species, Zootaxa 4446 (3), pp. 325-342 : 340

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scientific name	Lonchaea dichaeta McAlpine, 1964
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Lonchaea dichaeta McAlpine, 1964 View in CoL , p750.

Described by McAlpine (1964) from a single male Holotype without illustration of the male genitalia.

Male terminalia: ( Figs. 39–41) Cerci short and fleshy. Epandrium in side view at least twice as high as long; gradually tapered from dorsum to rounded ventral margin; ventral margin irregularly serrate. Surstyli greatly reduced and asymmetrical; ventral lobe of surstylus bearing a stump-like process at medial base, left twice as large as right; apices of these processes irregularly serrate. Phallus non-segmented; simply S-shaped; tapered to slender apex on apical half.

Previous record: RWANDA; For. du Rugege, (Foret du Rugege) Rutovu, 20–23 Jan. 1953, 2350 m., P. Basilewski. ( MRAC).