Lichtwardtia Enderlein, 1912

Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2023, Discovery of Lichtwardtia Enderlein (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in East India, Amurian Zoological Journal XV (3), pp. 641-649 : 642

Genus Lichtwardtia Enderlein, 1912

Lichtwardtia Enderlein, 1912: 406

Type species: Lichtwardtia formosana Enderlein, 1912 , original designation.

Vaalimyia Curran, 1926: 398

Type species: Vaalimyia violacea Curran, 1926 [= Dolichopus angularis Macquart, 1842 ], original designation.

Notes. See Grichanov (2004), Yang et al. (2011) and Tang et al. (2018) for diagnosis of the genus Lichtwardtia . Males differ from females usually in such male secondary sexual characters as variously coloured face (partly or mostly metallic, matt black, densely white or yellow pollinose), sometimes modified podomeres or wing costa ( Grichanov 2019). Females of close species are practically indistinguishable ( Tang et al. 2018).

As noted above, Grichanov (2020) suggested that the type locality for L. ziczac could be somewhere within one of the eastern Indi- an states. Three species of Lichtwardtia were found in the Odisha State located in East India and bordering West Bengal state. Two of these species are rather similar in habitus to the L. ziczac female holotype diagnosed by Tang et al. (2018) and Grichanov (2020). I selected the closest male and designated it here as representative of the L. ziczac species concept. This male is described and illustrated below.