Lispe nicobarensis Schiner, 1868

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 25-26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5309513
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B159E02-6434-5705-6AB1-AD4278B34324
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Lispe nicobarensis Schiner
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26. Lispe nicobarensis Schiner View in CoL , new record

Lispe nicobarensis Schiner, 1868: 297 View in CoL . Holotype female, Tellnschong, Nicobar Is, in NMW (seen).

Lispe binotata Becker, 1914: 81 View in CoL . Syntypes males & females, Taiwan, DEI, SMT, ZMHU, BMNH, NRS, USNM ( Pont & Werner 2006: 28) (syn. by Couri et al. 2010).

Diagnosis. Body length 4.0–4.5 mm; general colour shining black; frons brown, contrasting with the silvery pollinose parafacial and gena; palpus yellowish-brown, spoon-shaped; postpedicel about twice the length of pedicel; presutural dorsocentral seta 1; wing clear; halter yellow; legs with tarsi dark brown; fore femur with 1 or 2 posteroventral setae near apex; mid femur thinner on posterior half; hind tibia without posterodorsal seta; abdomen almost entirely brown, with small lateral silvery-grey areas.

Material examined. BPBM. Vanuatu: Erromango: Dillon Bay , 0–100 m, ii.1981, 2 ♀, N.L.H. Krauss ; 8 km W of Ipota , 100–200 m, iii.1970, 1 ♂, N.L.H. Krauss . Espiritu Santo: Segond Channel , viii.1950, 1 ♀. N.L.H. Krauss . Tanna: Lenakel , 0–200 m, i.1973, 2 ♀ (1 MNRJ, 1 BMNH), N.L.H. Krauss .

Comments. The species is recorded for the first time from Vanuatu.

Distribution. Australia, New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), Vanuatu; Oriental Region.