Comprehensive Catalog of Milichiella

# = male, $ = female

Milichiella Giglio-Tos

Milichiella Giglio-Tos, 1895: 367. Type-species: Tephritis argentea Fabricius, 1805: 323 [mon.; a misidentification of the species, which was described later as Milichiella tosi Becker, 1907; see Sabrosky 1973: 4]. Duda 1935b: 26 [systematics]; Hennig 1937: 25 [generic diagnosis, key to palaearctic species, type species M. argentea Giglio-Tos]; Brake 2006: 17 [fossil species, key, Dominican amber].

Ophthalmomyia Williston, 1896: 426. Type-species: Lobioptera lacteipennis Loew, 1866: 185 [mon.]. Hendel 1910: 313 [syn. with Milichiella acc. to Hendel 19??]. Cole 1969: 390 [syn. with Milichiella].

Opthalmomyia. Misspelling. Hunter 1914: 27.

Stenoporomyia Hendel, 1903: 250. Type-species: Lobioptera tiefii Mik, 1887: 178 [orig. des.]. Syn. Becker 1907b: 531.

Eccoptomma Becker, 1907b: 540. Type-species: frontale Becker, 1907b: 542 [des. Malloch 1934: 463]. Hennig 1937: 28 [genus diagnosis]. Syn. Sabrosky 1980: 688.

Pareccoptomma Duda, 1935b: 25 [as subgenus of Milichia]. Type-species: Milichia nigeriae Duda, 1935b: 26 [orig. des.]. Syn. Sabrosky 1980: 688.

Milichiela. Misspelling. Illingworth 1928: 45.

Millichiella. Misspelling. Becker 1908c: 203.

Eccoptoma. Misspelling. Serra 2002: 1.

aberrata Becker. NT: Bolivia, Peru.

Milichiella aberrata Becker, 1907b: 538. Bolivia. Sorata, 2300 m; Peru. Rosalina, Rio Urubamba. ST 1#1$ coll. Schnuse. Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog].

acrosticalis (Sabrosky). AF: Kenia, Nigeria, Tanzania.

Eccoptomma acrosticalis Sabrosky, 1958b: 2. Tanzania. Ngaruka, W Meru. HT # SMNS.

Milichiella acrosticalis. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [combination, Afrotropical catalog]; pers. note [synonym to nigeriae Duda].

archaia Brake. NT: Dominican amber.

?Milichia cf. ludens. Brake 2000a: 79.

Milichiella archaia Brake, 2006: 19. Dominican Republic, in amber. HT $ coll. Poinar.

arcuata (Loew). NE: Michigan to Quebec and Maine, s. to Kansas and Florida, also Arizona; NT: Puerto Rico.

Lobioptera arcuata Loew, 1876: 339. USA. New York: Long Island. HT # MCZ. Osten Sacken 1878: 209 [catalog, North America]; Smith 1890: 403 [New Jersey]; Johnson 1895: 339 [Florida], 1904b: 163 [New Jersey], 1909: 813 [New Jersey]; Becker 1907b: 535 [diagnosis]

Milichia arcuata. Aldrich 1905: 651 [catalog, North America];

Milichiella arcuata. Johnson 1913: 89 [Florida], 1925: 287 [Massachusetts], 1930: 157 [Massachusetts]; Malloch 1913a: 132 [District of Columbia, Maryland, Canada]; Curran 1928: 68 [Puerto Rico]; Leonard 1928: 864 [New York]; Johannsen 1928: 864 [New York]; Procter 1927: 225 [Maine], 1938: 348 [citation], 1946: 403 [citation]; Wolcott 1936: 391 [checklist, Puerto Rico]; Brimley 1938: 389 [checklist, North Carolina]; Sabrosky 1965a: 733 [Nearctic catalog]; Cole 1969: 390 [Arizona]; Frost 1969: 99 [light traps, Florida]; Aldrich & Barros 1995 [212-214] [chemical attraction to [E]-2-Hexenal]; Poole 1996: 179 [Nearctic checklist]; MCZ type database 2005 [type information, photos]

argentea (Fabricius). OR: Indonesia [Moluccas], ?Solomon Is.

Tephritis argentea Fabricius, 1805: 323. Indonesia. Moluccas: Amboina. T # CAU [only parts of thorax, halter, calypter and one wing left].

Lobioptera argentea. Mik 1887: 8[180] [Chlorops argenteus Wied. [Tephritis argentea Fabr.], probably belonging to Lobioptera].

Milichiella argentea. Becker 1907b: 511, 536 [type information; discussion of different determined specimens and of synonymy, probably syn. with M. melaleuca; diagnosis]; Bezzi 1908: 193 [Seychelles]; Sabrosky 1977: 273 [Oriental catalog], 1989: 557 [Australasian/Oceanian catalog].

argenteocincta Johnson. NT: West Indies [Jamaica].

Milichiella argenteocincta Johnson, 1919: 449. Jamaica. Kingston. HT # MCZ. Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog]; MCZ type database 2005 [type information, photos].

Pholeomyia argenteocincta. Gowdey 1926: 89 [checklist, Jamaica].

argentiventris Hendel. AF: ?Cape Verde Is., Egypt, ?Israel, Nigeria, Oman, Sudan, Yemen.

Milichiella argentiventris Hendel, 1931: 72. Egypt. Wadi Kanssisrob, Gebel Elba. ST 3# CUGE?. Hennig 1937: 26 [citation]; Frey 1958: 50 [Cape Verde Is.]; Steyskal 1966: 123 [type information, Egypt]; Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog]; Papp 1984a: 113 [Palaearctic catalog]; Deeming 1998: 154 [fig. of costal break, swarming, reared from rotten yam tubers, Nigeria, Niger State, Oman, Yemen].

Milichiella argentiventria. Misspelling. Steyskal & El-Bialy 1967: 34 [checklist, Egypt].

argyrogaster (Perris). PA: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Slovakia; former USSR: North European territory, Far East [Ussuri region].

Milichia argyrogaster Perris, 1876: 208. France. "Departement Landes". ST 3# ?. Perris 1876: 208 [larvae and pupae under wormeaten bark of piece of lime tree]

Milichiella argrogastra. Becker 1907b: 534 [diagnosis]; Seguy 1934b: 636 [fig. of eye, Algeria].

Milichiella argyrogaster. Hennig 1937: 26 [diagnosis, larvae in decaying wood, males flying in hot sunny weather near cut old Populus logs and females running on these, Russia; Austria]; ­Stackelberg 1958: 186 [Russia: North European territory]; Papp 1978c: 17 [Hungary], 1984a: 113 [Palaearctic catalog]; Gregor 1986: 184 [catalog, Slovakia], 1987: 262 [checklist, Slovakia]; Ferrar 1987: 223 [citation]; Rohá?ek & Gregor 1984: 17 [Slovakia]; Rohá?ek 1995: [biology, development, description of egg, larva and puparium]; Carles-Tolrá & Báez 2002: 174 [catalog, Spain].

Milichiella argylogaster. Misspelling. Iwasa 1999: 30 [figs of male genitalia, sternites and photo of male dorsal habitus, Japan].

Milichiella argyropasta. Misspelling. Aldrich, 1931: 398 [].

Lobioptera tiefii Mik, 1887: 178. Austria. Kärnten: Villach. ST 3# ?. Mik 1887: 178 [on and swarming near stack of logs of old beech branches].

Stenoporomyia tiefii. Becker 1905: 238 [Palaearctic catalog].

Lobioptera tiefi. Misspelling. Becker 1907b: 511 [syn. to M. argyrogastra].

Milichiella tiefi. Misspelling. Becker, 1905: 237; Aldrich, 1931: 398.

bakeri Aldrich. OR: Philippines, Taiwan.

Milichiella bakeri Aldrich, 1931: 398. Philippines. Luzon: Mt. Makiling. HT # USNM]. Hennig 1939: 85 [Taiwan, description of female]; Sabrosky 1977: 273 [Oriental catalog].

bimaculata Becker. PA: Canary Is.

Milichiella bimaculata Becker, 1907b: 534. Spain. Canary Is.: Gran Canaria. T # ?. Becker 1907b: 34 [fig. of male abdomen]; Frey 1936: 124 [on Euphorbia regis jubae, Canary Islands], 1958b: 62 [Canary Islands]; Hennig 1937: 27 [citation, type information]; Deeming & Báez 1985: 66 [fig. of head, Canary Islands]; Papp 1984a: 113 [Palaearctic catalog]; Carles-Tolrá & Báez 2002: 174 [catalog, Canary Is.].

Milichiella bimaculata Becker, 1908: 163. Spain. Canary Is.: Gran Canaria. T # ZMHU. Becker 1908: 163 [on flowers of Schinus mollis].

bisignata Melander. NE: Michigan to New Jersey, s. to Kansas and North Carolina, also New Mexico; NT: Costa Rica, Mexico.

Milichiella bisignata Melander, 1913a: 239. USA. New Jersey: Riverton. ST 1# MCZ, ST 1# USNM. Sabrosky 1965a: 733 [Nearctic catalog], 1973: 4 [maybe syn. to M. lucidula, Neotropical catalog]; Arnaud 1966: 149 [list of Melander names]; Cole 1969: 390 [New Mexico]; Poole 1996: 179 [Nearctic checklist]; MCZ type database 2005 [type information, photos].

Milichiella bisignata Johnson 1910a: 813 [name attributed to Coquillett]. Nomen nudum. Melander, 1913a: 240 [nomen nudum].

Milichiella bisbignota. Misspelling. Brimley 1967: 101 [checklist, North Carolina].

cinerea (Coquillett). NT: West Indies.

Ophthalmomyia cinerea Coquillett, 1900: 268. Puerto Rico. Bayamon. HT ? USNM [lost]. Aldrich 1905: 651 [catalog, North America];

Ophthalmomyia cineria. Mispelling. Wolcott 1923: 234 [citation].

Milichiella cinerea. Becker 1907b: 535 [diagnosis]; Malloch 1913a: 132 [description of male, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]; Melander 1913a: 239 []; Curran 1928: 68 [citation]; Wolcott 1936: 391 [checklist, Puerto Rico]; Steyskal 1949: 131 [acc. to Sabrosky type consist of only a piece of thorax and a leg buried in glue]; Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog].

cingulata Becker. NT: Peru.

Milichiella cingulata Becker, 1907b: 538. Peru. Pichis, Puerto Bermudes. ST 3# SMT. Becker 1907b: 538 [fig. of male abdomen]. Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog].

circularis Aldrich. AU: Hawaii.

Milichiella circularis Aldrich, 1931: 397. USA. Hawaii. HT # BBM. Aldrich 1931: 397 [collected in pineapple fields and near compost]; Bryan 1934: 441 [citations, Hawaii]; Krauss 1945: 317 [Hawaii]; Bianchi 1967: 323 [swarming over mill waste, Hawaii]; Hardy & Delfinado 1980: 363 [figs of male terminalia, males swarming, breeding in decaying vegetation, Hawaii]; Sabrosky 1989: 557 [Australasian/Oceanian catalog]; Nishida 1992: 111 [Hawaii].

Milichia circularis. Williams 1931: 308 [Hawaii].

circularis Illingworth, 1929: 234 [Nomen nudum]. [swarming near rubbish dump, Hawaii].

concava (Becker). NT: Chile.

Eccoptomma concavum Becker, 1907b: 541. Chile. Santiago. ST 4#$ DEI. Ortiz 1946: 142 [checklist, Chile]; Rohlfien & Ewald 1972: 444 [type information]; Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog].

dimidiata (Wiedemann). NT: Surinam.

Chlorops dimidiata Wiedemann, 1830: 597. Surinam. Cordua. HT # SMF.

Chlorops dimidiatus. Mik 1887: 8[180] [probably belonging to Lobioptera].

Milichiella dimidiata. Becker 1907b: 538 [diagnosis, type information]; Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog, “unrecognized”].

dolichosurstyla Brake. NT: Dominican amber.

Milichiella dolichosurstyla Brake, 2006: 21. Dominican Republic, in amber. HT # AMNH.

dominicana Brake. NT: Dominican amber.

Milichiella sp. 5. Brake 2000a: 79.

Milichiella dominicana Brake, 2006: 21. Dominican Republic, in amber. HT $ AMNH.

flavipalpis Hendel. NT: Argentina, Bolivia.

Milichiella flavipalpis Hendel, 1932: 142. Bolivia. San José de Chiquitos. ST 2# SMNS. Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog, Argentina].

freyi (Hendel). PA: Canary Is.

Eccoptomma freyi Hendel, 1936: 125. Spain. Canary Is.: Tenerife. ST 3$ UZMH, NMW. Hennig 1937: 28 [citation]; Frey 1958b: 62 [type information, as holotype, Canary Islands]; Deeming & Báez 1985: 66 [synonymy with bimaculata]; Papp 1984a: 112 [Palaearctic catalog]; Carles-Tolrá & Báez 2002: 174 [catalog, Spain (Canary Is.)].

frontalis (Becker). NT: Argentina, Chile.

Eccoptomma frontale Becker, 1907b: 542. Chile. Coronel. ST # SMT. Malloch 1934: 463 [variation in microtomentum on tergites, swarming, Argentina, Chile]; Ortiz 1946: 142 [checklist, Chile]; Hennig 1957: 411 [on Isle Juan Fernandez, Chile]; Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog, Argentina, Chile].

hendeli Brake. NE: California

Milichiella nitida Hendel, 1911: 39. Pacific Grove [California]. [Preocc. Walker, 1836; HT # von Aldrich]. Cole 1927: 452 [morphology of male terminalia], 1969: 390 [short diagnosis]; Sabrosky 1965a: 733 [Nearctic catalog]; Poole 1996: 179 [Nearctic checklist].

Milichiella hendeli Brake, 2000: 105. [n.n. for nitida Hendel, 1911].

hennigi Brake. NT: Dominican amber.

Milichiella hennigi Brake, 2006: 23. Dominican Republic, in amber. HT # AMNH.

iberica Carles-Tolrá. PA: Spain.

Milichiella iberica Carles-Tolrá, 2001: 521. Spain. Badajoz: Herrera del Duque. HT # Coll. Carles-Tolrá. Carles-Tolrá 2001: 521 [on Umbellifera and flowers of Thapsia villosa, figs male genitalia, sternite 5, female cerci]; Carles-Tolrá & Báez 2002: 174 [catalog, Spain].

javana Meijere. OR: Indonesia [Java].

Milichiella javana Meijere, 1911: 427. Indonesia. Java: Semarang, 6°58’S, 110°29’E. HT # ZMAN. Meijere 1918: 353 [citation]; Sabrosky 1977: 273 [Oriental catalog]; Jong 2000: 102 [type information].

lacteipennis (Loew). PA: Afghanistan; Spain [Canary and Madeira Is.]; AF, OR, NE, NT, AU: almost cosmopolitan.

Lobioptera lacteipennis Loew, 1866: 185. Cuba. ST 1#2-3$ MCZ. Osten Sacken 1878: 210 [catalog, North America]; Johnson 1895: 339 [Florida], 1904b: 163 [New Jersey]; MCZ type database 2005 [type information, photos].

Ophthalmomyia lacteipennis. Williston 1896: 427 [on West Indies]; Coquillett 1900: 268 [Puerto Rico, District of Columbia to Florida, west to New Mexico, West Indies], 1908: 292 [fig. of wing]; Johnson 1904a: 80 [Bermuda Is.]; Aldrich 1905: 651 [catalog, North America]; Tucker 1906: 201 [Kansas], 1907: 107 [Kansas]; Wolcott 1923: 234 [Puerto Rico]; Hallock & Parker 1926: 20 [New Jersey]; Ogilvie 1928: 46 [checklist, Bermuda Is.].

Opthalmomyia lacteipennis. Hunter 1914: 27 [type information].

Opthalmomyia lobioptera. Error. Hunter 1914: 27. Pers. note [must be Lobioptera lacteipennis].

Milichiella lacteipennis. Becker 1907b: 533 [diagnosis], 1908: 162 [diagnosis, on flowers of Schinus mollis]; Johnson 1910a: 813 [New Jersey], 1913: 89 [Florida], 1914: 452 [Bermuda Is.], 1919: 449 [Jamaica], 1925: 287 [Massachusetts], 1930: 157 [Massachusetts]; Hendel 1913: 107 [Taiwan]; Malloch 1913a: 133 ["taken among aphids on cotton", Florida, District of Columbia, Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico, Alabama, California, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Brazil, Guam, Hawaii], 1914: 312 [Taiwan], 1924: 336 [Queensland], 1931: 77 [Australia], 1933: 3 [Marquesas Is.], 1934a: 464 [Chile], 1934b: 326 [bred from guinea-pig dung, Samoa]; Melander 1913a: 239 [Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico], 1952: 419 [compost, Hawaii]; Bezzi 1914: 281 + 308 [Angola], 1928: 162 [bred from manure heap, stable manure and rotten cow-pea seed, distribution, Fiji Islands]; Lamb 1914: 360 [Seychelles]; Tucker 1917: 300 [in oats-stubbs field, transported on squash bug, Texas]; Meijere 1918: 353 [citation]; Illingworth 1923: 271 [swarming about the tins of hen manure and bred out from the mass, Hawaii]; Bryan et al. 1926: 70 [Hawaii]; Curran 1928: 67 [Puerto Rico], 1931: 14 [Puerto Rico]; Johannsen 1928: 864 [New York]; Leonard 1928: 864 [New York]; Williams 1931: 307 [Hawaii]; Bryan 1934: 441 [about decaying vegetable matter and resting on green leaves, Hawaii], 1935: 145 [on plane from Midway Islands]; Felt & Chamberlain 1935: 60 [on top of fire tower, New York]; Swezey 1935: 11 [killed by balsa flower, Ochroma lagopus, Hawaii], 1946: 198 [Guam]; Frey 1936: 124 [on sand dunes, typical for dryest machia-like localities, swarming, Canary Islands], 1958a: 50 [mainly very dry localities on Cape Verde Is.], 1958b: 62 [Canary Islands]; Wolcott 1936: 391 [on eggplant and on Chalcas (Murraya) exotica, checklist, Puerto Rico]; Hennig 1937: 27 [short diagnosis, fig. of head, almost cosmopolitan], 1941: 176 [Taiwan]; Sakimura & Linford 1940: 453 [on rotting pineapples, Hawaii]; Zwaluwenburg 1943: 311 [Canton Island]; Beatty 1944: 154 [Puerto Rico]; Krauss 1944: 91 [Hawaii], 1945: 317 [Hawaii], 1963: 536 [attracted to Nezara viridula, Hawaii], 1964: 334 [citation]; Fullaway & Krauss 1945: 165 [on flowers of Nothopanax cochleatum, predated by Lispa metatarsalis, fig. of habitus, Hawaii]; Ortiz 1946: 142 [checklist, Chile]; Bohart & Gressitt 1951: 22-23, 28, 98-99 [bred from cattle droppings, heaps of cow and horse manure, and decaying aquatic vegetation; attracted to garbage dumps and human faeces; species, larvae, and puparium description; biology, very common on Guam]; Berry 1957: 59 [on rotten stem cabbage, San Salvador]; Sabrosky 1958b: 2 [Tanzania], Sabrosky 1965a: 733 [Nearctic catalog], 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog], 1977: 273 [Oriental catalog], 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog], 1989: 557 [Australasian/Oceanian catalog]; Suehiro 1960: 297 [Midway Atoll]; Butler 1961: 385 [Hawaii]; Wilton 1961: 480 [reared from garbage can, Hawaii], 1963: 314 [on dog faeces, Hawaii]; Butler & Usinger 1963: 243 [Hawaii]; Beardsley 1966: 165 [Hawaii]; Sholdt 1966: 294 [on flowers of Cocos nucifera, Hawaii]; Steyskal 1966: 123 [Egypt]; Steyskal & El-Bialy 1967: 34 [checklist, Egypt]; Cole 1969: 390 [California, Oregon]; Legner 1969: [attracted to rotten egg baits, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Argentina, California]; Greenberg 1971: 216 [citation, prey of Dermaptera: Labiduridae and Labiidae, Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae and Staphylinidae, Hymenoptera: Formicidae]; Lindner 1973/74: 77 [Namibia]; Papp 1979: 105 [Afghanistan], 1984a: 113 [Palaearctic catalog]; Hardy & Delfinado 1980: 364 [figs of male terminalia, Hawaii]; Lopez 1984: 3 [kleptoparasitic on Nephila inaurata with pentatomid bug, Seychelles]; Deeming & Báez 1985: 65 [seemingly feeding on secretions of Odius nymph [Pentatomidae], Canary Islands, Nigeria]; Early & Goff 1986: 521 [on cat carcass, Hawaii]; Ferrar 1987: 223 [citation]; Landau & Gaylor 1987: [kleptoparasitic on spider with bug, Alabama]; Nishida 1992: 111 [Hawaii]; Poole 1996: 179 [Nearctic checklist]; Deeming 1998: 154 [swarming, on sweet potato, cow dung, Oman]; Kami & Miller 1998: 33 [checklist, Samoa]; Woodruff et al 1998: 69 [checklist, Grenada]; Iwasa 1999: 29 [swarming around cattle houses, figs of male genitalia, sternites and photo of male dorsal habitus, Japan]; Brake 2000a: 12 [figs of head, male genitalia, spermathecal duct coil, Israel]; Carles-Tolrá & Báez 2002: 174 [catalog, Canary Is., Madeira].

Millichiella lacteipennis. Becker 1908c: 203 [Madeira].

Milichiela lacteipennis. Illingworth 1928: 45 [in pineapple field, Hawaii].

Milichiella sp. prob. lacteipennis. Aldrich 1970: 349 [attracted to defensive secretion of bugs].

Milichia albohalterata Séguy, 1933: 50. Nomen nudum [Mozambique]. [attributed to Becker, acc. Sabrosky 1980: 688]. Hennig 1937: 27 [discussion of name, nomen nudum].

Milichiella nigrella Cole, 1912: 162. USA. California: Laguna Beach. ST A ?. Cole 1912: 162 [fig. of habitus, on beach]. Melander 1913a: 239 []; Cole 1925: 58 [correction of diagnosis], 1969: 390 [not synonymous acc. to Aldrich]. Syn. Sabrosky 1965a: 733.

Milichiella lactipennis. Misspelling. Cole & Lovett 1921: 342 [Oregon].

Pholeomyia lactipennis. Misspelling. Gowdey 1926: 89 [checklist, Jamaica].

lacteiventris Malloch. AU: Queensland, ?Mariana Is.

Milichiella lacteiventris Malloch, 1931: 77. Australia. Queensland: Eidsvold. HT # AMS. Bohart & Gressitt 1951: 99 [short diagnosis, abundant light traps, swept from rank vegetation growing in abandoned coconut groves, Guam]; Lee et al. 1956: 322 [type information]; Sabrosky 1989: 557 [Australasian/Oceanian catalog].

longiseta Hardy & Delfinado. AU: Hawaiian Is.

Milichiella longiseta Hardy & Delfinado, 1980: 365. USA. Hawaii: Oahu, Honolulu. HT # BBM. Hardy & Delfinado, 1980: 365 [figs of head, male abdomen, terminalia, swarming]; Sabrosky 1989: 557 [Australasian/Oceanian catalog]; Nishida 1992: 111 [Hawaii].

lucidula Becker. NT: Bolivia, Peru, ?Argentina. NE: USA (?Illinois, North Caronlina).

Milichiella lucidula Becker, 1907b: 537. Peru. Callanga; Bolivia. Sorata, 2300 m. ST # HNHM, SMT. Malloch 1913a: 132 [Illinois], 1934: 464 [Argentina]; Brimley 1942: 29 [North Carolina]; Brimley 1967: 101 [checklist, North Carolina]; Sabrosky 1973: 5 [Neotropical catalog].

margaretae Brake. NT: Dominican amber.

Milichiella margaretae Brake, 2006: 24. Dominican Republic, in amber. HT # AMNH.

melaleuca (Loew). AF: South Africa, ?Zimbabwe.

Argyrites melaleuca Loew, 1863: 16. South Africa. Bloemfontein. T # lost.

Argyrites melaleucus. Mik 1887: 8[180] [citation].

Milichiella melaleuca. Becker 1907b: 512, 536 [as a synonym of M. argentea Fabr.]. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].

Milichia melaleuca. Bezzi 1908: 193 [South Africa].

Milichiella tosi Becker, 1907b: 536. Seychelles. ST # Turin Museum. Cuthbertson 1936: 56 [swarming behaviour, Zimbabwe]; Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].

Milichiella argentea. Misidentification. Authors, not Fabricius [acc. Sabrosky 1980].

montana (Becker). NT: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Puerto Rico.

Eccoptomma montanum Becker, 1907b: 541. Chile; Peru. Cuzco, 3300-4200 m; Bolivia. Sorata, 2300 m. ST # DEI. Curran 1928: 66 [description, Puerto Rico]; Wolcott 1936: 391 [checklist, Puerto Rico]; Ortiz 1946: 142 [checklist, Chile]; Rohlfien & Ewald 1972: 444 [type information]; Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog].

nigeriae (Duda). AF: Nigeria.

Milichia (Pareccoptomma) nigeriae Duda, 1935b: 26. Nigeria. Gadau. ST 10# BMNH. Duda 1935b: 26 [swarming near Baobab].

Eccoptomma nigeriae. Sabrosky 1958b: 4 [combination].

Milichiella nigeriae. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [combination, Afrotropical catalog].

nigripes Malloch. AU: New South Wales.

Milichiella nigripes Malloch, 1931: 77. Australia. HT # AMS. Lee et al. 1956: 326 [type information]; Sabrosky 1989: 557 [Australasian/Oceanian catalog].

nitida (Walker). NT: Brazil.

Gymnopa nitida Walker, 1836: 359. Brazil. St. Catherine. ST 1$ BMNH. Sabrosky 1973: 5 [Neotropical catalog, comb. with Milichiella]; pers. note [nomen dubium, one ST $ in BMNH in bad condition, very similar to M. lacteipennis, except for red palpi].

nudiventris Becker. NT: Bolivia.

Milichiella nudiventris Becker, 1907b: 537. Bolivia. Mapiri Sarampiuni, 700 m. HT # SMT. Sabrosky 1973: 5 [Neotropical catalog].

parva (Macquart). AF: Réunion.

Milichia parva Macquart, 1843: 426. France. Réunion. T # ?. Bezzi 1908: 193 [Is. Borbone =?Réunion].

Milichiella parva. Becker 1907b: 535 [diagnosis]; Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].

pseudodectes (Seguy). AF: Mozambique.

Milichia pseudodectes Seguy, 1933: 50. Mozambique. Chiramba. T # MNHNP.

Milichiella pseudodectes. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [combination, Afrotropical catalog].

quadrisetosa Brake. NT: Dominican amber.

Milichiella quadrisetosa Brake, 2006: 25. Dominican Republic, in amber. HT # AMNH.

smithi Aldrich. OR: Thailand.

Milichiella smithi Aldrich, 1931: 399. Thailand. Bangkok. HT # USNM. Sabrosky 1977: 274 [Oriental catalog].

solitaria (Lamb). AF: Seychelles.

Eccoptomma solitarium Lamb, 1914: 361. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate, 800 ft or above. ST 1# BMNH.

Milichiella solitaria. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].

spinthera Hendel. OR: Taiwan.

Milichiella spinthera Hendel, 1913: 107. Taiwan. Pilam. HT # DEI. Hennig 1941: 176 [Taiwan, type information]; Rohlfien & Ewald 1972: 444 [type information]; Morge 1976: 509 [figs of head, type habitus]; Sabrosky 1977: 274 [Oriental catalog].

Milichiella spinithera. Misspelling. Iwasa 1999: 30 [swarming atound cattle houses, fig of male genitalia, sternites and photo of male dorsal habitus, Japan].

sumptuosa Meijere. OR: Indonesia [Java], Nepal.

Milichiella sumptuosa Meijere, 1911: 426. Indonesia. Java: Srondol, 7°05’S, 110°25’E. ST 2# RNH, ST 11# ZMAN. Meijere 1911: 426 [males swarming in front of cowshed], 1918: 353 [citation]; Sabrosky 1977: 274 [Oriental catalog]; Jong 2000: 209 [type information].

theodori Brake. NT: Dominican amber.

Milichiella theodori Brake, 2006: 25. Dominican Republic, in amber. HT # AMNH.

tricincta Becker. NT: Chile.

Milichiella tricincta Becker, 1907b: 540. Chile. Arica. ST 4# SMT. Ortiz 1946: 142 [checklist, Chile]; Sabrosky 1973: 5 [Neotropical catalog].

tristis Lamb. AF: Seychelles, Kenya.

Milichiella tristis Lamb, 1914: 360. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate, 800 ft or above. ST 2$ BMNH [male syntype(s) lost]. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog]; Lopez 1984: 3 [kleptoparasitic on Nephila inaurata with pentatomid bug, Seychelles].

unicolor (Meijere). AF: Cameroon; OR: ?Java.

Milichia unicolor Meijere, 1906: 333. Cameroon. Victoria, 4°01’N, 9°12’E. ST 2? DEI, ST 1$ ZMAN, ST ? ZMUH?. Meijere 1906: 333 [pollinating Abrame angustum L. J.]; Bezzi 1908: 193 [Cameroon]; Rohlfien & Ewald 1972: 445 [2 syntypes in DEI]; Jong 2000: 225 [type information].

Milichiella unicolor. Becker 1907b: 536 [diagnosis]; Meijere 1914: 254 [short description of female, Java], 1918: 353 [citation]; Sabrosky 1977: 274 [Oriental catalog], 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].

urbana Malloch. NE: USA (Delaware, District of Columbia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas).

Milichiella urbana Malloch, 1913c: 284. USA. District of Columbia: Washington. HT $ USNM. Sabrosky 1965a: 733 [Nearctic catalog]; Poole 1996: 179 [Nearctic checklist].

Milichiella populi Steyskal, 1949: 130. USA. Michigan: Grosse Ile. HT # UMMZ. Steyskal 1949: 130 [on bark of trunk of dead Populus deltoides], 1952: 255 [on poplar], 1957: 92 [eye color]. Syn. Sabrosky 1965a: 733.

velutina Becker. NT: Peru.

Milichiella velutina Becker, 1907b: 539. Peru. Rosalina, Urubamba river. ST 2# SMT. Sabrosky 1973: 5 [Neotropical catalog].

vidua Becker. NT: Peru.

Milichiella vidua Becker, 1907b: 539. Peru. Umahuankiali, Urubamba river. T $ SMT. Sabrosky 1973: 5 [Neotropical catalog].

unnamed Milichiella species

sp. in Beavers et al. 1972: [attracted to 2,4-Hexadienyl hexanoate, Florida].

sp. in Everly 1940: 53 [on sweet corn, Ohio].

sp. in Beatty 1944: 154 [Puerto Rico].

sp. in Denning et al. 1947: 25 [on aircraft].

sp. near argentea [Fab.] in Sabrosky 1958b: 2 [Tanzania].

sp. near solitaria Lamb in Sabrosky 1958b: 2 [Tanzania].

sp. in Maldonaldo Capriles & Navarro 1967: 56 [Milichiella in Wolcotts list of Puerto Rico is in part a new species nr. M.. bisignata].

sp. in Eisner et al. 1991: 8196 [attracted to trans-2-hexenal, kleptoparasitic on Nephila with heteropteran prey, Florida].

sp. in Ferrar 1987: 223 [reared from soil and manure in stockyards, Western Australia].

sp. in Ferrar 1987: 223 [reared from soil on rotting wood in Australia, citation of Colless & McAlpine 1970].

sp. in Legner 1969: [attracted to rotten egg baits, Trinidad and California].

sp. in Swezey 1926 is Milichiella circularis!

sp. near cinerea [Coq.] in Johnson 1913: 89 [Desmometopa tarsalis, Florida]. - acc. to Sabrosky 1983.

sp. in Sivinski 1985: 221 [kleptoparasitic on Nephila clavipes eating coreid bug].

spp. in Wolda & Sabrosky 1986: [visiting flowers of Aristolochia pilosa, Republic of Panama].

spp. in Deeming 1998: 155 [Oman].

sp. 1-4 in Brake 2000a: 12 [Cuba, Turkey, Venezuela].

spp. in Swann 2000: 266 [Namibia].

Taxonomic name: 
Milichiella (Classification), Ophthalmomyia (Classification), Lobioptera (Classification), Stenoporomyia (Classification), Eccoptomma (Classification), Pareccoptomma (Classification), Milichia (Classification), Pholeomyia (Classification), Desmometopa (Classification), Chlorops dimidiatus (Classification), Desmometopa tarsalis (Classification), Eccoptomma concavum (Classification), Eccoptomma freyi (Classification), Eccoptomma solitarium (Classification), Gymnopa nitida (Classification), Lobioptera argentea (Classification), Lobioptera lacteipennis (Classification), Lobioptera tiefii (Classification), Milichia albohalterata (Classification), Milichia arcuata (Classification), Milichia argyrogaster (Classification), Milichia melaleuca (Classification), Milichia nigeriae (Classification), Milichia parva (Classification), Milichia pseudodectes (Classification), Milichia unicolor (Classification), Milichiella aberrata (Classification), Milichiella archaia (Classification), Milichiella arcuata (Classification), Milichiella argentea (Classification), Milichiella argenteocincta (Classification), Milichiella argentiventris (Classification), Milichiella argyrogaster (Classification), Milichiella bakeri (Classification), Milichiella bimaculata (Classification), Milichiella cinerea (Classification), Milichiella cingulata (Classification), Milichiella circularis (Classification), Milichiella dimidiata (Classification), Milichiella dolichosurstyla (Classification), Milichiella dominicana (Classification), Milichiella flavipalpis (Classification), Milichiella hennigi (Classification), Milichiella iberica (Classification), Milichiella javana (Classification), Milichiella lacteipennis (Classification), Milichiella lacteiventris (Classification), Milichiella longiseta (Classification), Milichiella lucidula (Classification), Milichiella margaretae (Classification), Milichiella melaleuca (Classification), Milichiella nigeriae (Classification), Milichiella nigrella (Classification), Milichiella nigripes (Classification), Milichiella nitida (Classification), Milichiella nudiventris (Classification), Milichiella parva (Classification), Milichiella pseudodectes (Classification), Milichiella quadrisetosa (Classification), Milichiella smithi (Classification), Milichiella solitaria (Classification), Milichiella spinthera (Classification), Milichiella sumptuosa (Classification), Milichiella theodori (Classification), Milichiella tosi (Classification), Milichiella tricincta (Classification), Milichiella tristis (Classification), Milichiella unicolor (Classification), Milichiella velutina (Classification), Milichiella vidua (Classification), Tephritis argentea (Classification)
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