Lichtwardtia microlepis (Parent, 1939)

Grichanov, I. Ya., 2019, NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF LICHTWARDTIA ENDERLEIN, 1912 (DIPTERA: DOLICHOPODIDAE) FROM TROPICAL AFRICA, Far Eastern Entomologist 387, pp. 7-32 : 19

Lichtwardtia microlepis (Parent, 1939) , nom. resurr.

Figs 68, 69

Vaalimyia microlepis Parent, 1939: 274 .

Vaalimyia minuta Vanschuytbroeck, 1951: 51 . Type locality: DR Congo: Uele , Monga.

Lichtwardtia fractinervis (Parent, 1929) (in part): Grichanov, 1998: 233.

DISTRIBUTION. Type locality: Ghana : "Obuasi Ashanti ". DR Congo, Ghana .

NOTES. Grichanov (1998) noted variability of the L. fractinervis material studied. Nevertheless, the latest descriptions of new species (Grichanov, 2004; Tang et al., 2018; this paper) clearly testify that the Figures 29–30 (Parent, 1939) do not correspond with the species concept of L. fractinervis proposed by Parent (1937) and figured by Grichanov

(1998: Figs 1 , 11 ). So, I raise here L. microlepis from synonymy. It is apparently a sibling species with L. nikolaevae , differing from the latter in M 4 as long as dm-m; antenna entirely yellow, slightly darker at apex; postpedicel distinctly longer than high, with pointed apex;

male cercus higher than long (after Parent, 1939).

Figures

Figs 62–69. Lichtwardtia spp., male wing (62–68) and hypopygium (69). 62 – L. aethi-

Figs 28–33. Lichtwardtia spp., male cercus after maceration, outer view. 28 – L. aethiopica

Figs 1–10. Lichtwardtia spp., hypopygium, left lateral view. 1 – L. angularis (Macquart);

Figs 11–20. Lichtwardtia spp., hypopygium, left lateral view. 11 – L. mironovi Gricha-