Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 25

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scientific name	Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch
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25. Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch View in CoL

Lispe fuscipalpis Malloch, 1929a: 155 View in CoL . Holotype male, Tanna , Vanuatu, in BMNH (seen).

Lispe pumiloides Snyder, 1965: 265 View in CoL . Holotype male, Giliman, Yap Island, Caroline Is, in USNM (syn. by Pont 1989: 693).

Lispe fuscipalpis View in CoL ; Pont, 1989: 693.

Diagnosis. Antenna dark brown, base of postpedicel brownish-red; postpedicel long, about 3 times the length of pedicel; arista plumose on basal two-thirds; palpus brown, gradually broadened apically; scutum brown, pleura and a dorsolateral area from postpronotum to postalar declivity and sides of scutellum greyish pruinescent; scutum with two faint grey pollinose narrow vittae and two more lateral vittae; legs black, base of fore tibia and all of mid and hind tibiae light brown; wing with veins R 4+5 and M subparallel at apex; sternite 5 of male small, “V” shaped (Fig. 22f); aedeagus as in Fig. 24c; ovipositor as in Fig. 24h (all in Snyder 1965, as pumiloides ).

Material examined. BPBM: Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo: Luganville , 20–30.viii.1958, 25 ♂ (1 MNHN, 1 MNRJ, 1 BMNH) , 35 ♀ (1 MNHN, 1 MNRJ, 1 BMNH) ; 21–31.vii.1958, 21 ♂ (1 MNHN, 1 MNRJ, 1 BMNH) , 5 ♀ ( MNHN, 1 MNRJ, 1 BMNH), B. Malkin .

Distribution. Caroline Is ( Belau, Yap), New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), Rennell I., Solomon Is, Vanuatu.