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Feijen, Hans R., Feijen, Cobi & O., P., 2019, An annotated catalogue of the stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae: Diptera) of India with description of new species in Megalabops Frey and Teleopsis Rondani, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 49 (2), pp. 35-72 : 50

Indian Diopsidae records based on misidentifications

A substantial number of Diopsidae were erroneously reported from India. Bigot (1892: 215) recorded two purely Afrotropical species D. circularis and D. ichneumonea and also D. westwoodii from Java. Van der Wulp (1897: 171) reported the Afrotropical Diopsis trentepohlii Westwood , but later (Van der Wulp 1899: 53) withdrew this record. Brunetti (1907: 165) recorded Teleopsis longiscopium Rondani from “ India ”, but this was a location in present-day Myanmar. It was anyway a misidentification. Curran (1936: 2) reported Diopsis ferruginea Röder from Mergui, India, but this is now in southern Myanmar. Shillito (1940: 156) stated that this was a misidentification and that it concerned Cyrtodiopsis currani Shillito. Teleopsis ferruginea (Röder) is anyway a species only occurring in Sri Lanka. Several papers ( Datta & Biswas 1985: 219; Mitra et al. 2015: 59) reported the Java species C. dalmanni for India. Datta & Biswas (1985: 220) and Datta & Parui (1999: 31) reported the Philippines species E. subnotata from India. M. quadriguttata (as Teleopsis ) was recorded by Datta & Biswas (1985: 221) and Mitra et al. (2015: 59). Sharma (1988: 143) reported the Afrotropical rice stem-borer D. longicornis (as D. thoracica ).