Lispocephala pectinata (Stein)

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2556 (1), pp. 1-39 : 27

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5309525
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scientific name	Lispocephala pectinata (Stein)
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29. Lispocephala pectinata (Stein) View in CoL , new record

Coenosia pectinata Stein, 1900b: 147 View in CoL . Holotype ♂, Madang, Papua New Guinea, destroyed; formerly in HNHM ( Pont 1969b: 87).

Diagnosis. Head brown, densely grey dusted; antenna brownish, long, reaching epistoma; palpus yellow, brown at base; scutum brown, grey dusted, slightly shining, with three brown vittae and a discrete brown line along dorsocentral rows; calypters and halter whitish; legs with coxae and femora brown, and tibiae yellow; posteroventral series of setae on fore femur uniform in length; abdominal syntergite 1+2 yellow, tergites 3–5 with brown lateral marks; male sternite 5 as in Figs 21 and 21a, and cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 24–27 of Pont (1972b).

Material examined. BPBM: Vanuatu: Erromango: 11 km W Ipota , 100–200 m, iii.1970, 1 ♂, N.L.H. Krauss . Maewo: Sounwari , 15°23S 168°07E, 0–360 m, 4–5.ix.1979, 1 ♀, W.C. Gagné GoogleMaps .

BMNH: Vanuatu: Malekula: Ounua , iii-iv.1929, 1 ♀, L.E. Cheesman .

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

Distribution. Australia (Qld), Belau, French Polynesia (Society Is), Guam, Indonesia (Maluku), Micronesia, New Caledonia ( New Caledonia), PNG (Bismarck Arch, PNG), Solomon Is, Vanuatu, Western Samoa; Afrotropical and Oriental Regions.