The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu Author Couri, Marcia S. Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 20.940 - 040. E-mail: mcouri @ terra. com. br Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, U. K. E-mail: pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205, CP 50 - 45 Rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris, France. E-mail: daugeron @ mnhn. fr Author Pont, Adrian C. Author Daugeron, Christophe text Zootaxa 2010 2010-08-02 2556 1 1 39 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2556.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1 1175-5326 5302228 24. Lispe assimilis Wiedemann Lispe assimilis Wiedemann, 1824: 51 . Lectotype male, ‘ex India orientali’ (East Indies), in ZMUC, des. Shinonaga & Pont (1992: 720) . Lispe incerta Malloch, 1925a: 337 . Holotype male, Eidsvold, Queensland , Australia , in ANIC, syn. by Shinonaga & Pont (1992: 718) . Lispe assimilis ; Shinonaga & Pont, 1992: 718 . Diagnosis. Frons broad, about 0.35 of head width; parafacial silvery pruinose, with several short setulae; antenna black; palpus yellow; fore femur with a row of well-spaced posteroventral setae; male mid femur without anteroventral setae, and with only short posteroventral setulae, shorter than femoral depth ( Shinonaga & Pont 1992 : Fig. 4 ); mid femur in female with short setae on anteroventral to posteroventral surfaces; in basal half of anterior surface with one strong seta and a few much shorter ones ( Shinonaga & Pont 1992 : Figs 5 and 6 ). Material examined. No material seen. NSMT : Vanuatu : Éfaté : 10 km NW of Port Vila , 12–14.ii.1978 , 1 ♂ , 1 ♀ , S. Shinonaga , and 1 ♂ , H. Shima (listed by Shinonaga & Pont 1992: 718 ) . Comments. The species was recorded from Vanuatu by Shinonaga & Pont (1992) . Distribution. Australia (Qld, NT), Belau , Bonin Is, Fiji , French Polynesia (Society Is), Micronesia , New Caledonia ( New Caledonia ), Norfolk I., Solomon Is, Vanuatu , Western Samoa ; Oriental and Palearctic Regions.