Blattisocius daci (Narayanan & Ghai, 1961)

Melichares (Blattisocius) daci Narayanan & Ghai, 1961: 18 .

Blattisocius daci .—Haines, 1979: 28; Zhang & Fan, 2010: 282; Britto et al., 2012: 50.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: National Pusa Collection, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, collected from a laboratory colony of fruit flies Dacus cucurbitae and Dacus dorsalis (Animalia: Tephritidae) infested with phorid flies (Animalia: Phoridae).

NOTE: Lindquist (1964a: 206; 1964b: 3895), Hughes (1976: 333) and Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 30) considered B. daci to be a junior synonym of Blattisocius mali (Oudemans, 1929) . We adopted the interpretation of Haines (1979: 28), considering them to be distinct species.