Lispe caesia caesia Meigen, 1826

Zhang, Dong, Ge, Ying-Qiang, Li, Xin-Yu, Liu, Xian-Hui, Zhang, Ming & Wang, Rong-Rong, 2016, Review of the Lispe caesia - group (Diptera: Muscidae) from Palaearctic and adjacent regions, with redescriptions and one new synonymy, Zootaxa 4098 (1), pp. 43-72 : 51

Lispe caesia caesia Meigen, 1826

( Figs. 1 B; 3B; 4B, D, F; 8; 9; 31C, D)

Lispe caesia Meigen, 1826: 228 ; Hennig, 1960: 423; Pont, 1986: 185. Lispe crassiuscula Loew, 1847: 31 .

Lispa convexiuscula Kowarz, 1892: 48 .

Lispa odessae Becker, 1904: 37 ; Hennig, 1960: 449.

Material examined. Type material. HOLOTYPE female, labeled (1) Lispe caesia [handwritten]; (2) Meigen [handwritten]; in MNHN. Additonal material: 1 male, Italy: Sardegna Island, 7.VIII.1955, Coll. A.G. Soika; 1 male, Spain: Tabarca Island, 1908; 1 male, France: Palavas, 28.VI.1919; 1 female, Turkey, 26.V.1961, Coll. A.G. Soika; in MBFU.

Remarks. WIPs of this subspeices includes 4 color bands (magenta, green, blue and magenta) at posterior part of the wing in both male and female, of which the second magenta band is narrow (Figs, 31C, D). For major differences between males of L. caesia caesia and L. caesia microchaeta see the key above.

Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, France, Israel, Italy, Libya, Morocco, Russia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Swollen and setulose first hind tarsomeres of males from Lispe caesia - group. A, L. aquamarina Shinonaga & Kano, right leg, posteroventral view, from Liaoning, China. B, L. caesia caesia Meigen, right leg, ventral view, from France. C, L. caesia microchaeta Séguy, left leg, posterolateral view, from Xinjiang, China. D, L. candicans Kowarz, left and right legs, posterior view, from France. E, L. flavicornis Stein, right leg, anteroventral view, from Guangdong, China. F, L. halophora Becker, left leg, posteroventral view, from Egypt. G, L. lanceoseta Mou, right leg, anteroventral view, from Shanxi, China. H, L. leucocephala Loew, right leg, ventral view, from Egypt. I, L. palawanensis Shinonaga & Kano, left and right legs, lateral view, from Phillipines. J, L. patellitarsis Bekcer, left leg, posteroventral view, from Zhanjiang, China. Scale bars: A – J = 0.50 mm.