Lispe tentaculata (De Geer, 1776)

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 : 66

Lispe tentaculata (De Geer, 1776)

Material examined.

Over 350 specimens from a vast territory from the Iberian to Kamchatka Peninsulas.

Europe:Greece;Latvia;Portugal;Russia (European): Arkhangelsk, Chuvashia, Komi, Krasnodar, Kursk, Moscow, Murmansk, N. Ossetia, Nizhnyi Novgorod, Tula, Vladimir, Ulyanovsk; the Netherlands;Ukraine.

Asia:Abkhazia; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Kazakhstan: Almaty; Mongolia: Uvs prov.; Russia (Asian): Altai, Amur reg., Kamchatka, Khanty-Mansi reg., Krasnoyarsk reg., Magadan reg., Omsk reg., Primorsky Kray, Sakha (Yakutia) reg., Tyumen reg., Yamalo-Nenets reg.; Tajikistan: Dushanbe div., Khatlon div., Gorno-Badakhshan div.; Turkmenistan: Ahal, Mary; Turkey (Asian): Adana prov., Ankara prov., Antalya prov., Bolu prov., Duzce prov., Hatay prov., Isparta prov., Izmir prov., Kayseri prov., Konya prov., Mersin prov., Sakarya prov., Zonguldak prov.; Uzbekistan: Tashkent.

Remarks.

Lispe tentaculata has a variable t3 chaetotaxy: besides the normal strong ad and short pd setae, an additional seta just below the strong ad but in a more a-position is often present and sometimes a second strong ad and a short pd may also be present. About 5% of females have a male-like scutum: with only 3 strong post dc and without a pruinose patch on the scutum.