Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch, 1929

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30. Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch , new record

Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch, 1929a: 155 . Holotype male, Tanna , Vanuatu, in BMNH (seen).

Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch ; Pont, 1989: 693.

Lispe pumiloides Snyder, 1965: 265 . Holotype male, Giliman, Yap I., Caroline Is , in USNM.

Diagnosis. Antenna dark brown, base of postpedicel brownish-red; postpedicel long, about 3 times as long as scape; arista plumose on basal two thirds; palpus brown, gradually broadened apically; scutum brown, pleura and a dorsolateral area from postpronotum to postalar declivity and sides of scutellum greyish pruinescent; scutum with two faint grey pollinose narrow vittae and two more lateral vittae; legs black, base of fore tibia and all of mid and hind tibiae light brown; wing with veins R 4+5 and M subparallel at apex; sternite 5 of male, small, “V” shaped ( Fig. 22f ); aedeagus as in Fig. 24 c ; ovipositor as in Fig. 24h (all in Snyder, 1965, as pumiloides ).

Material examined: BPBM: New Caledonia: Nouméa : 22–23.xi.1963, 1 ♂, R. Straatman. Hienghéne: 0–50 m, 1 ♀, i.1969, N.L.H. Krauss .

Comments. The species is recorded from New Caledonia for the first time.

Distribution. Caroline Is ( Belau, Yap), New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), Rennell I., Solomon Is, Vanuatu.

Figures

FIGURES 17–26. Dichaetomyia shinonagai, sp. nov. 17–20. Male terminalia. 17. Sternite 5. 18. Cercal plate and surstylus, dorsal view. 19. Cercal plate and surstylus, lateral view. 20. Aedeagus, lateral view. 21–22. Female. 21. Ovipositor, dorsal view. 22. Ovipositor, ventral view and spermathecae. 23–26. Larva. 23. Anterior segments. 24. Posterior segments. 25. Cephalopharyngeal skeleton. 26. Posterior spiracle.