Lichtwardtia minuscula Grichanov, 1998: 228 NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF LICHTWARDTIA ENDERLEIN, 1912 (DIPTERA: DOLICHOPODIDAE) FROM TROPICAL AFRICA Grichanov, I. Ya. Far Eastern Entomologist 2019 2019-08-05 387 7 32 9HNK3 Grichanov Grichanov 2019 [227,589,368,390] Insecta Dolichopodidae Lichtwardtia GBIF Animalia Diptera 16 23 Arthropoda species ghanaensis sp. nov.   Fig. 39    Lichtwardtia minusculaGrichanov, 1998: 228(nec Parent, 1934, misidentification).    TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype – ♂,  Ghana: Banda-Nkwanta/  VII–VIII 1965, leg.  Endrody-Y. [ HNHM]. Paratypes: 1♂, same label [ ZIN];  Ghana: Kumasi,  1 –25.VI 1965, 2♂, leg. Endrody-Y. [ HNHM].  DESCRIPTION. Male. Similar to  Lichtwardtia minusculain all respects except as noted. Head: face distinctly narrowed at upper third; ratio of its minimal width to height 11/35; antenna yellow; postpedicel darkened distally, as long as high; palpus yellow, with short brown setae. Legs. Hind basitarsus with 1 reduced dorsal seta, at most 1/4 as long as basitarsus; fore tibia and tarsomere (from first to fifth) length ratio: 69/33/15/12/9/11. Wing hyaline. Ratio of part of costa between R 2+3and R 4+5to this between R 4+5and M 1+2, 25/24; ratio of distal part of M 1to m-mto distal part of M 1+2to dm-mto distal part of M 4, 59/10/38/22/32; Epandrium of moderate size, elongate, swollen basally, narrow distally, twice longer than high, with concave ventral margin (lateral view); hypandrium simple, basoventral, nearly as long as epandrium, without tooth; phallus thin and long, with small dorsal tooth positioned at middle of full length of epandrium; epandrial lobe undeveloped; 3 strong epandrial setae raising from dorsal side of epandrium in apical third; 2 epandrial setae positioned on apicoventral prominence; surstylus bilobate; ventral lobe short, digitiform, rounded at apex, with several short apical and subapical setae; dorsal lobe of surstylus somewhat longer and wider than ventral, broad at base, narrowed at apex, half as long as cercus, with 2 dorsal and 2 subapical short setae; postgonite very narrow, nearly as long as surstylus; cercus 1/3 as long as epandrium, twice longer than wide, elongate-oval, with acute distodorsal apex and long ventral cilia, of which apical cilia equal in length to medial width of cercus. MEASUREMENTS (in mm). Body length 2.4; wing length 2.4; wing width 0.8; hypopygium length 0.6. Female. Unknown.  DISTRIBUTION. Ghana.  ETYMOLOGY. The Latin name of the species belongs to the country of origin.  DIAGNOSIS. The new species is a sibling species with  L. minuscula, differing reliably from the latter in male cercus apically narrow and pointed rather than broad and subquadrate; hypandrium simple. NOTES. Grichanov (1998) mentioned 3 femalesunder the name  L. minusculafrom  Ghana, but from different localities. They are not included into the typeseries of  L. ghanaensis, because two or more species of the genus can be collected from the same locality with their females being practically indistinguishable. [265,1127,494,517] 1965-07 1965-08-31 1965-07 TYPE, MATERIAL Ghana Banda-Nkwanta 16 23 1 1 holotype [227,546,521,543] HNHM 16 23 1 paratype [598,1122,521,543] 1965-06-01 1965-06-25 1965-06-01 ZIN Ghana Kumasi 16 23 2 2 paratype