Meroplius wallacei Iwasa, 1999

Ozerov, A. L., 2018, Contribution to the fauna of the genus Meroplius Rondani, 1874 (Diptera, Sepsidae) of the Australasian / Oceanian region, Zootaxa 4438 (1), pp. 195-200 : 199

Meroplius wallacei Iwasa, 1999 ( Figs 9–13 .)

wallacei Iwasa, 1999: 94 (Meroplius) . Type-locality: Bobo (750 m), Palu (Indonesia: Sulawesi I.)

Remarks. M. wallacei was described from Indonesia, Sulawesi I. ( Iwasa, 1999), and later recorded from Seram I. ( Iwasa, 2001). No material was examined, but this species was fully described and very good illustrated by Iwasa (1999).

Distribution. Australasian/Oceanian.— Indonesia (Seram I.). Oriental.— Indonesia (Sulawesi I.).

Figures

FIGURES 9–13. Meroplius wallacei Iwasa (after Iwasa, 1999): 9—male fore femur and tibia (left), anterior view; 10—male fore femur (left), posterior view; 11—male abdominal sternite 4; 12—male epandrium and surstyli, lateral view; 13—same, dorsal view.