Lonchaea Fallén, 1820

Macgowan, Iain & Tschirnhaus, Michael Von, 2024, Records of Lonchaeidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha) from Togo and other African countries, with descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 5514 (1), pp. 1-27 : 18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F2D3EAD5-33F3-4D4C-A257-D942E1AEB6CA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13861869

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F4013A-8B4F-377C-FF03-FE78FEA72E75

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scientific name

Lonchaea Fallén, 1820
status

 

Lonchaea Fallén, 1820 View in CoL

Lonchaea arrogata McAlpine, 1964 View in CoL : ( Lonchaea View in CoL ). Région des Plateaux: Badou , town edge, hotel “Abuta”, 7.5833N 0.6055E, 23.4– 25.4.2008, leg. Menzel, Oehlke & Tschirnhaus, 1♂ GoogleMaps .

This species occurs in several countries across central Africa. Lonchaea arrogata View in CoL belongs to the Lonchaea impressifrons Bezzi, 1920 View in CoL species-group within which species can only be identified by examination of the male genitalia.

Lonchaea enderleini McAlpine, 1960 View in CoL : secondary homonym of L. caerulea Walker (1849: 1004) View in CoL .

coeruleus ( Enderlein, 1927: 106) ( Mastigimas View in CoL ).

Région des Plateaux : Zogbégan , Ortsteil Zogbégan-Carriére (SE of Badou), at river/creek Elèbè, 7.5805N 0.6675E, 650 m a.s.l., cocoa-plantation, remains of secondary rainforest, dense bank vegetation, mud and sparsely running water, dead wood, Malaise trap, leg. Menzel, Ssymank & Tschirnhaus, 21– 26.4.2008, 1♀ GoogleMaps . Région des Plateaux : N of Kessibo-Wawa, at the border to Ghana (N of Badou), at river Wawa, 7.703N 0.5905E, 180m a.s.l., forest understory, cocoa plantation, and sun exposed vegetable fields, some Cyperaceae View in CoL , 24.4.200 8, leg. M. Tschirhaus, 1♂ GoogleMaps . Région des Plateaux : Manma-Kopé N of Gbadi Nkougna (SE of Badou), 7.450N 0.6997E, 660m, plantation (coffee, oilpalm, acacia), swept above saw dust, 25.4.200 8, leg. M. Tschirhaus, 1♀ GoogleMaps .

Previously known from Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lonchaea togoensis ( Enderlein, 1927) View in CoL : ( Mastigimas View in CoL ). Bismarckburg, 1890’s, 1♀. Only known from Togo from the 1890’s record ( Enderlein, 1927) but also more recently recorded from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Lonchaeidae

Loc

Lonchaea Fallén, 1820

Macgowan, Iain & Tschirnhaus, Michael Von 2024
2024
Loc

coeruleus (

Enderlein, G. 1927: 106
1927
Loc

Lonchaea enderleini

Walker, F. 1849: )
1849
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