Lispe microptera Seguy , 1937
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.235.3306 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/70C25C60-4300-0F9E-2D33-859840EE14C5 |
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Lispe microptera Seguy , 1937 |
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Lispe microptera Seguy, 1937 View in CoL Figs 38
Material examined.
India: Rajasthan state: Jaipur, 26.96°N, 75.85°E, 21-22.II.2011, NV, 10♂♂, 7♀♀; Sambhar salt-lake, 26.916°N, 75.190°E, 23.II.2011, NV, 8♂♂.
Distribution.
India, Rajasthan and Pakistan, Karachi (type locality).
Description of female.
Body length 7-7.5 mm, wing length 6mm.
Frontal triangle narrow, yellowish dusted; interfrontalia brownish-black. Fronto-orbital plate blackish grey dusted, with 4 inclinate and 2 proclinate setae and dense hairs in outer row. Parafacial covered with hairs. Antenna black, postpedicel short. Arista with hairs two times shorter than antenna width, in apical third bare. Palpus narrow, dirty-yellow.
Thorax. Scutum and scutellum brownish dusted with a pair of indistinct vittae, pleura grey dusted.
dc 2+4 (medium - medium + medium/weak-medium/weak-strong-strong). Meron with 3-4 setulae above hind coxa, anepimerom with about 15 setulae. Wing with vein R4+5 distinctly curved forward.
Legs. Femora dark with yellow apex, tibiae yellow in basal half and dark in apical half, tarsi black.
f1 with a complete row of 10-12 pv setae. t1 with submedian p seta. f2 with a row of short a setae in basal half and with 2 pd at apex. t2 with 1 submedian p seta. f3 slightly curved; with a short av seta at basal 1/3 (absent in some specimens) and short pv at apex, av preapical absent. t3 with 1 ad and 1 pd setae at middle. Hind tarsus unmodified.
Abdomen grey dusted with large dorsal black spots separated by anteriorly interrupted grey vitta.
Male differs from female as follows: body length 6.5-7 mm, wing length 5-5.5 mm; f2 with a complete row of fine v setae about as long as femur width; f3 in basal half with 4-5 fine long (2-2.5 femur width) pv setae and 1(2) av in basal 1/3; hind tarsus modified: tar3-1 slightly laterally compressed and outward curved, with waved ventral setulae more dense at base and at apex; tar3-2 with waved ventral setulae; male cercal plate as in Fig. 8.
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