Lipoleucopis pulchra Raspi, 2008: 664

Gaimari, Stephen D. & Havill, Nathan P., 2021, A new genus of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) predaceous on Adelgidae (Hemiptera), with a key to chamaemyiid species associated with Pinaceae-feeding Sternorrhyncha, Zootaxa 5067 (1), pp. 1-39 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5067.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3915D929-50E3-4235-A02F-EA9DE4B1E48F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5724977
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scientific name	Lipoleucopis pulchra Raspi, 2008: 664
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Type locality: United Arab Emirates (HT ♂, DCDS) .

This species is known only from the Arabian Peninsula and Morocco ( Ebejer 2016), and has never been reared. The lack of native Pinaceae would suggest a different host than adelgids if Lipoleucopis pulchra is native to the UAE or Morocco, but the possibility remains that the species is more widespread, and feeds on adelgids infesting ornamental Pinaceae in its currently known range.

References

Ebejer, M. J. (2016) The first record of the genus Melanochthiphila Frey (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae) from the Palaearctic, and new data on other Chamaemyiidae from Morocco. Studia dipterologica, 22 (1), 111 - 120.

Raspi, A. (2008) Order Diptera, family Chamaemyiidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, 1, 662 - 665.