Lispe assimilis Wiedemann, 1824

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 24-25

24. Lispe assimilis Wiedemann

Lispe assimilis Wiedemann, 1824: 51 . Lectotype male, ‘ex India orientali’ (East Indies), in ZMUC, des. Shinonaga & Pont (1992: 720).

Lispe incerta Malloch, 1925a: 337 . Holotype male, Eidsvold, Queensland, Australia, in ANIC, syn. by Shinonaga & Pont (1992: 718).

Lispe assimilis ; Shinonaga & Pont, 1992: 718.

Diagnosis. Frons broad, about 0.35 of head width; parafacial silvery pruinose, with several short setulae; antenna black; palpus yellow; fore femur with a row of well-spaced posteroventral setae; male mid femur without anteroventral setae, and with only short posteroventral setulae, shorter than femoral depth ( Shinonaga & Pont 1992: Fig. 4 ); mid femur in female with short setae on anteroventral to posteroventral surfaces; in basal half of anterior surface with one strong seta and a few much shorter ones ( Shinonaga & Pont 1992: Figs 5 and 6 ).

Material examined. No material seen.

NSMT: Vanuatu: Éfaté: 10 km NW of Port Vila , 12–14.ii.1978, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, S. Shinonaga, and 1 ♂, H. Shima (listed by Shinonaga & Pont 1992: 718) .

Comments. The species was recorded from Vanuatu by Shinonaga & Pont (1992).

Distribution. Australia (Qld, NT), Belau, Bonin Is, Fiji, French Polynesia (Society Is), Micronesia, New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), Norfolk I., Solomon Is, Vanuatu, Western Samoa; Oriental and Palearctic Regions.

Figures

FIGURES 1–10. 1–6. Dichaetomyia univittata, sp. nov. 1–4. Male terminalia. 1. Sternite 5. 2. Cercal plate and surstylus, dorsal view. 3. Cercal plate and surstylus, lateral view. 4. Aedeagus, lateral view. 5–6. Female. 5..Ovipositor, dorsal view. 6. Ovipositor, ventral view and spermathecae. 7–10. Limnophora longiantennata Couri, Pont & Daugeron. Male terminalia. 7. Sternite 5. 8. Sternite 6. 9. Cercal plate and surstylus, dorsal view. 10. Cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus, lateral view.