Leptocera, OLIVIER, 1813

Papp, L., 2012, A Review Of The Afrotropical Species Of Leptocera Olivier (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 58 (3), pp. 225-258 : 251-252

Leptocera salatigae (DE MEIJERE, 1914)

Limosina salatigae DE MEIJERE, 1914: 269. Lectotype male (designated by ROHÁČEK, 1983: 138, ZMAN): Indonesia, Java, Salatiga.

Leptocera (Leptocera) salatigae. – ROHÁČEK 1983: 138–143 (redescription, phylogenetic notes and illustrations).

Leptocera (Paracollinella) parafulva DUDA, 1925: 54 . Lectotype female (ZMHB, designated by HAYASHI 1995: 556, synonymy): Taiwan, Taihoku.

Limosina (Paracollinella) saegeri VANSCHUYTBROECK, 1959: 74 . Holotype male: Zaire, Parc National de la Garamba (MRAC). – ROHÁČEK in ROHÁČEK et al. 2001: 23; synonymy proposed. For detailed synonymy see ROHÁČEK et al. 2001: 157.

Material studied ( HNHM): 20 specimens from Ghana and Uganda, identified by Dr J. ROHÁČEK. Additional specimens: Tanzania: 1 male: Muyuni, Morogoro reg., 1–18. II. 1987., leg. Mahunka, Zicsi. Yemen: 2 males 1 female: Wadi Zabid , fényre [on light], 1970. X./XI./VII., Szalay- Marzsó A. [Aladár] .

A species which was frequently misidentified (see the synonymy list above), until ROHÁČEK (1983) revised it through studies on types (see his figures 1 to 13).

Distribution (after ROHÁČEK et al. 2001) – Afrotropical: Burkina Faso, Cap Verde Is, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania (new), Uganda, Yemen (new), Zaire; Australasian/Oceanian region: American Samoa, Australia ( NSW, QLD), Bonin I. ( Japan), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa i Sisifo, Tonga; Oriental region: India (Kashmir), Indonesia (Java, Flores, Krakatau), Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Srí Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; Palaearctic: Japan.

Leptocera fontinalis (FALLÉN, 1826) – ROHÁČEK (1982) redescribed this species correctly with excellent figures. I have not seen any material from the Afrotropical region and I am uncertain which species was depicted by RICHARDS (1938: figs 2, 4). The postabdomen and spermathecae are clearly different from L. fontinalis (cf. ROHÁČEK 1982: figs 44, 42). Apparently, all records from the Afrotropical region are based on misidentifications. ROHÁČEK et al. (2001) also considered all Afrotropical records doubtful.