Review of the Lispe caesia - group (Diptera: Muscidae) from Palaearctic and adjacent regions, with redescriptions and one new synonymy Author Zhang, Dong Author Ge, Ying-Qiang Author Li, Xin-Yu Author Liu, Xian-Hui Author Zhang, Ming Author Wang, Rong-Rong text Zootaxa 2016 4098 1 43 72 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.2 4c29b236-0316-49f4-99e4-8d5f643ab34a 1175-5326 257886 C21BDADD-8993-4F84-BAC3-531C92268F17 Lispe caesia microchaeta Séguy, 1940 ( Figs. 1 C; 2B; 3C; 4G, I,K; 10; 11; 30B; 31E, F) Lispa caesia microchaeta Séguy, 1940 : 342 ; Hennig, 1960 : 424 ; Pont, 1986 : 185 ; Xue & Zhang, 2005: 119; Zhang et al. , 2005: 356 Lispe caesia caesia Meigen : Fan, 1992 : 371 ; Xue & Chao, 1996 : 995 . [misidentified] Material examined. 1 female , China : Xinjiang: Mt. Aerjin, 11.VIII.1988 , Coll. X.Z. Zhang; 9 males and 2 females , China : Xinjiang: Altay City: Kalamaili Nature Reserve, 14–17.VIII.2009 , Coll. D. Zhang; 11 males , China : Liaoning: Jingzhou, 9.VIII.2014 , Coll. X.Y. Li. All deposited in MBFU . FIGURE 10. Lispe caesia microchaeta Séguy, 1940 . Male, from Xinjiang, China [in MBFU]. A, habitus, lateral view. B, head, lateral view. C, head, anterolateral view. D, head, anterior view. E, abdomen, dorsal view. Scale bars: A= 1.00 mm, B–E= 0.5 mm. Redescription. Male. Body length: 6.0– 6.5 mm . Head ( Figs. 10 C, D, E): Eye bare, facet a little expanded on anterior margin in median part; frons broad in median part, becoming narrow anteriorly, median part about 0.32– 0.35 times of head-width; frontal vitta, frontal triangle and frontal-orbital plate with obvious boundary; frons, face, gena and antenna with silvery pollinosity; upper orbital setae 1, frontal setae 3 and with 1 row of short setae on outer part; parafacial bare, about as wide as postpedicel; facial ridge low, concave; antenna dark brown, postpedicel about 3.2–3.4 times as long as broad (1.6–1.8 times as long as pedicel), arista plumose, the longest setula equal to width of postpedicel; face planate, without facial carina; epistoma not projecting to vibrissal angle; vibrissa weak, shorter than length of distance between them; genal height about 1/7 of eye height; postocular setae 4 rows, posterior 2 rows situated in occiput; postgena with black setulae; proboscis short, labella small, with 2 prestomal teeth on posterior margin; prementum shinning; palpi yellow, compressed, becoming spoon-shaped apically, apical inner surface setulose and outer surface bare, outer surface with silvery pollinosity. FIGURE 11. Lispe caesia microchaeta Séguy, 1940 . Female, from Xinjiang, China [in MBFU]. A, habitus, lateral view. B, head, lateral view. C, head, anterolateral view. D, head, anterior view. E, abdomen, dorsal view. Scale bars: A= 1.00 mm, B–E= 0.50 mm. Thorax: Ground color black with dense silver grey pollinosity; acr 0+1 (thin); presutural 5 rows of acrostichal setulae; dc 2+3; ia 0+2, without pra ; basal and apical scutellar setae all developed; scutellum bare on lateral surfaces and underneath; notopleuron bare; the median part of anepimeron with numerous bristles; prosternum, meron and katepimeron bare; spiracles brown, posterior one small and with 4 or 5 setae on posterior lower margin; katepisternal setae 1+2. Wings: Slightly hyaline; veins becoming brown towards apex; tegula brown; basicosta and subcostal sclerite yellow; costal spine unobvious; vein C with ventral setulae; other veins bare; vein R4+5, M and crossvein dm-cu straight; calypteres white; haltere tawny; WIPs with color bands not entirely demarcated (blue, magenta, red and yellow) at posterior part of the wing, of which red band narrow ( Figs. 31 E, F). Legs: Black except knees yellow, with densely silver grey pollinosity; fore femur with 1 elongated pv row; fore tibia with 1 submedian pv ; mid tibia with 1 submedian ad and 1 submedian pv ; hind femur with 1 ad row, with 3 elongated v on apical half; hind tibia with 1 apical d ; first hind tarsomere dictinctly swollen, becoming spindleshaped ( Fig. 1 B), swollen part with close-set elongated ventral setulae (sword-shaped) ( Fig. 30 B); swollen tarsomere shorter than the summed length of other tarsomeres; tarsi shorter than tibiae; claws and pulvilli small. Abdomen: Ground color black, oval, with grey pollinosity; tergites silver grey, tergite 3 with small faint patches, tergite 4 dusted with large triangular brown patches on sides, tergite 5 with pair of large brown venteral patches ( Fig. 10 B). Female. Body length 6.4–6.6 mm . General characters as in male but differing from male in: frons about 0.31 times of head-width at median part; upper orbital setae 2; vibrissa developed; hind femur with 4 elongated setulae on venter; first hind tarsomere not swollen; tergite 4 with larger patches, tergite 5 without patches ( Fig. 11 E), tergite 7 divided medially, fused with sternite 7; sternite 7 stongly sclerotized, with median lobe, sternite 8 absent. Distribution. China (Liaoning Xinjiang), Spanish Sahara .