NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF LICHTWARDTIA ENDERLEIN, 1912 (DIPTERA: DOLICHOPODIDAE) FROM TROPICAL AFRICA
Author
Grichanov, I. Ya.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2019
2019-08-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.387.2
journal article
10.25221/fee.387.2
2713-2196
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Lichtwardtia microlepis
(Parent, 1939)
, nom. resurr.
Figs 68, 69
Vaalimyia microlepis
Parent, 1939: 274
.
Vaalimyia minuta
Vanschuytbroeck, 1951: 51
.
Type
locality:
DR Congo
:
Uele
,
Monga
.
Lichtwardtia fractinervis
(Parent, 1929)
(in part): Grichanov, 1998: 233.
DISTRIBUTION
.
Type
locality:
Ghana
:
"Obuasi
Ashanti
".
DR Congo
,
Ghana
.
NOTES. Grichanov (1998) noted variability of the
L. fractinervis
material studied. Nevertheless, the latest descriptions of new species (Grichanov, 2004; Tang
et al
., 2018; this paper) clearly testify that the
Figures 29–30
(Parent, 1939) do not correspond with the species concept of
L. fractinervis
proposed by Parent (1937) and figured by Grichanov
(1998:
Figs 1
,
11
). So, I raise here
L. microlepis
from synonymy. It is apparently a sibling species with
L. nikolaevae
, differing from the latter in M
4
as long as
dm-m
; antenna entirely yellow, slightly darker at apex; postpedicel distinctly longer than high, with pointed apex;
male cercus higher than long (after Parent, 1939).