Lispe draperi Seguy , 1933

Vikhrev, Nikita, 2011, Review of the Palaearctic members of the Lispe tentaculata species-group (Diptera, Muscidae): revised key, synonymy and notes on ecology, ZooKeys 84, pp. 59-70 : 63

Lispe draperi Seguy, 1933 sp. rev.

Lispa draperi Séguy 1933: 122. Fig. 11-13.

Lispe tentaculata ssp. draperi Canzoneri and Meneghini 1966: 115.

Material examined.

Morocco: east of Marrakech, 1400m, stones on river bank, 22.III.2009, N.Vikhrev, 1♀; west of Marrakech, Oued Nfiss, stones on river bank, 23.III.2009, N.Vikhrev, 2♂♂, 5♀♀; near Essaouira, stones on river bank and pond/pool silt, 24-29.III.2009, N.Vikhrev, 11♂♂, 4♀♀.

Remarks.

The conspecifity of the material listed above with type of Lispe draperi Séguy was kindly confirmed by A.C. Pont (pers. comm.) who examined the holotype of Lispe draperi in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Hennig (1960: 430) examined the type of this species and provisionally maintained it as a good species although he considered that the type might be an aberrant specimen of Lispe tentaculata . Canzoneri and Meneghini (1966) suggested that Lispe draperi is North African yellowish-legged subspecies of Lispe tentaculata but the species was sunk as a synonym of Lispe tentaculata by Pont (1986). This decision could be supported by the fact that the male cercal plate is similar to that of Lispe tentaculata . However, more careful examination shows that the structure of male terminalia differs and it is especially obvious in the structure of sternite 5 (Fig. 2). Lispe draperi should therefore be restored as a valid species, although closely related to Lispe tentaculata . I examined the sternite 5 of Lispe tentaculata collected in the Netherlands, Moscow region, Krasnodarsky Kray, Primorsky Kray (Russian Far East) and high in the Pamir mountains (Tajikistan, Gorno-Badakhshan, 3800 m asl.) and found it to be identical in all cases but different from that in Moroccan Lispe draperi .