Lispe bengalensis (Robinean-Desvoidy, 1930)

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species, Zootaxa 4869 (1), pp. 1-54 : 36

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4418104

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF183F-2C3A-FF88-FF3A-634EFE0C04F0

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scientific name

Lispe bengalensis (Robinean-Desvoidy, 1930)
status

 

Lispe bengalensis (Robinean-Desvoidy, 1930) View in CoL ( Fig. 56 View FIGURE )

Limnophora bengalensis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1930: 518 View in CoL .

Specimens examined. 1m, Jazan, Water Treatment Works , 7.ix.2014, sweeping on mangrove by coast, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993). It was described from India. In terms of Middle Eastern material, there is a specimen labelled “Middle East, 1941-2, J.W. Macfie” and identified by F.I. van Emden. The scanty data is not surprising, since there was a war going on and the collector may have forgotten in the turmoil where he collected it. Prior to this J.W. Macfie was a medical doctor in Nigeria who collected insects of medical importance, mainly mosquitoes. There is also a specimen from Port Said, 15.vi.23, R. Loveridge and a further three specimens labelled “Qater Al Khor, Purple Island, 25.iv.2014, D. Whitmore.

Taxonomic remarks. This specimen lacks a posterior bristle on the fore tibia. The adults of species in the genus Lispe display morphological variation in populations. It is a fly with a grey abdomen bearing black spots and a silvery grey face.

Biological remarks. The predaceous larvae live in moist sand and mud alongside water.Adults prey upon other insects and arthropods, both adult and immature ( Gregor et al. 2002, Deeming 2008). Adults are more likely to be found running on mud.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Lispe

Loc

Lispe bengalensis (Robinean-Desvoidy, 1930)

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C. 2020
2020
Loc

Limnophora bengalensis

Robineau-Desvoidy 1930: 518
1930
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