Lamprolonchaea smaragdi (Walker, 1849)

Harym, Younes El & Korneyev, Valery, 2023, New additions to the fauna of the superfamily Tephritoidea (Diptera) of Morocco, Zootaxa 5360 (4), pp. 487-514 : 493

Lamprolonchaea smaragdi (Walker, 1849)

Lonchaea aurea : Séguy 1934b; 1953.

Material examined. Rif: Douar Kitane, 05.vii.2016, 1♂; Oued Tasift, 18.vii.2021, 1♂; Melloussa, 16.x.2021, 1♀, (sweeping); Jumb, swept from flowers of Ceratonia siliqua , 24.x.2021, 6♂♂, 4♀♀. Middle Atlas: Douar Oulad Abdoune, 17.v.2017, 1♂, 2♀♀; Pont Tadla (Oued Oum Er-Rbiâ), 18.v.2017, 1♀; Taouziaa Oulad Ayad Elgharbiyine, 18.v.2017, 1♀ (sweeping). Anti-Atlas: Avant Sidi Binzarne, 12.v.2015, 1♀; Sidi Abbou, 13.v.2015, 2♀♀; Mesti, 16.v.2015, 1♂; Msidira, 18.v.2015, 1♂; Oued Sayad, 19.v.2015, 4♂♂, 1♀; Oued Assa, 20.v.2015, 1♂; Oued Tisla, 24.v.2015, 6♂♂, 2♀♀; Ikhf Mezrou, 06.vi.2015, 1♀, sweeping (El Harym) ( LESCB) .

Distribution. Mediterranean sub-region ( Morocco, Algeria, Canary Islands, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Maltese Islands, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Jordan); widespread in the Afrotropical Region, including Madagascar and St. Helena; Hawaii, Bermuda; Australasian-Oceanian ( Australia, Queensland); Nearctic ( USA (California as introduction). ( Séguy 1934b; MacGowan & Freidberg 2008; Ebejer 2015; MacGowan et al. 2016; MacGowan 2023).