Campiglossa lyncea (Bezzi, 1913)

Tephritis lyncea Bezzi, 1913: 165. Type locality: Darjeeling, E. Himalayas, West Bengal, India.

Remarks.

Campiglossa lyncea is distinguished from other Indian species by its mostly black femora, white posterior notopleural seta, two hyaline marginal spots in cell r2+3, and large, often coalesced, hyaline discal spots. This species is known only from northern India and includes the record of C. absinthii Fabricius, 1805 from Solan, Himachal Pradesh (Agarwal and Sueyoshi 2005), which was misidentified as the synonym C. parvula (Loew, 1862) by Kapoor et al. (1979a) and Kapoor (1993). The illustration of C. parvula by Kapoor (1993) closely matches C. lyncea of Bezzi (1913), whereas the figure of C. lyncea in Kapoor’s (1993) publication is copied from Hardy (1973) and is neither this species nor Indian. Hence, Hardy’s (1973) Vietnamese records, considered to be conspecific with Kapoor’s (1993) figure of ' C. lyncea ' by Hancock (2008), are also excluded. The syntypes of C. lyncea, deposited in ZSI, are damaged (Banerjee, D; Diptera Section, ZSI, pers. comm.) and were not available on loan. Hence, a detailed diagnosis and redescription are not included.