Lichtwardtia hirsutiseta (de Meijere, 1916)

Tang, Chufei, Yang, Ding & Grootaert, Patrick, 2018, Revision of the genus Lichtwardtia Enderlein in Southeast Asia, a tale of highly diverse male terminalia (Diptera, Dolichopodidae), ZooKeys 798, pp. 63-107 : 63

Lichtwardtia hirsutiseta (de Meijere, 1916) Figure 21

Rhagoneurus hirsutisetus de Meijere, 1916: 229. Male. Type locality Batavia (= Jakarta, Indonesia).

Material examined.

Holotype male Batavia, August, 1907, leg. Jacobson (Figure 21) Naturalis (Leiden, Netherlands). The male was not physically examined by us, only the photographs (courtesy of Ben Brugge).

Diagnosis.

A larger species (body length 4.5 mm; wing length 4.0 mm). Postpedicel mainly dark yellow, but blackish on dorsum and tip. Wing brown with cross veins not brownish seamed and costa with a distinct swelling well before R1 reaches the costa (Figure 21D). Hind coxa yellow (Figure 21B). Male terminalia with complicated twisted hypandrium and phallus (Figure 21B).

Comments.

As marked in the diagnosis L. hirsutiseta is quite unique in having a largely darkened postpedicel while other Lichtwardtia have generally an entirely yellow postpedicel. The swelling of the costa is also unique. It is well separated and before R1 reaches the costa. The complex male terminalia resemble L. monstruosa sp. n. but not L. polychroma .