Lichtwardtia ziczac (Wiedemann, 1824)

Grichanov, I. Ya., 2020, New species and new records of Lichtwardtia Enderlein, 1912 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Australasian and Oriental regions, Far Eastern Entomologist 399, pp. 1-13 : 11

Lichtwardtia ziczac (Wiedemann, 1824)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Holotype ♀, India Orientalis , on pin [the Natural

History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen].

DIAGNOSIS. The female can be associated in future with an unknown male by the following combination of characters unusual for the majority of other species:

wing with anterior margin faintly brownish and cross veins brownish seamed (noted by Tang et al., 2018); hind femur with brown spot dorsally on apex; anterodistal cross vein (m-m) strongly oblique, not perpendicular to corresponding longitudinal veins.

NOTES. Dolichopus ziczac was described by Wiedemann (1824) by a female collected in East India (“ India Orientalis ”). Tang et al. (2018) have studied the type in Copenhagen and suggested that the type locality for this species could be every-

where in the Oriental region ranging from Pakistan to New Guinea. However, at the beginning of 19th century, the British East India Company occupied mainly the present-day Bangladesh and some territories in southern and eastern India (see, for example, a historical map “Territories of the British East India Company in 1805”

compiled by The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, Imperial Gazetteer of India,

Oxford University Press , 1907). The so called Danish India (few settlements within the British East India), where the type was probably collected in the first quarter of

19th century, included the town of Tharangambadi in present-day Tamil Nadu state of India, Serampore in present-day West Bengal, and the Nicobar Islands, currently part of India's union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (e.g. Feldbaek,

1978). During the next two centuries, Lichtwardtia ziczac was reported from many countries including Pakistan, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Australia and Solomon

Islands, where no other species of the genus are known from. I think the most of these and other records belong to other described or undescribed species, because many Lichtwardtia species have rather local distribution. So, the type locality for the species could be somewhere within one of the eastern Indian states. Regarding the Indian fauna of Dolichopodidae , it is rather poorly known. Here I have recorded the second species of the genus from the country, L. hirsutiseta , collected from western Indian state Goa (see above). Additional material collected from eastern

India can clarify the status of L. ziczac .