Sphyracephala hearseiana (Westwood, 1845)

Sphyracephala hearseiana (Westwood, 1845) View in CoL

( Figs 3, 5)

Diopsis hearseiana Westwood, 1845: 274 View in CoL (Westwood examined a type series from various places in India, but these flies appear lost).

Sphryracephala hearseiana (Westwood) (error for Sphyracephala hearseiana View in CoL ): Westwood 1848: 37, pl. 18, fig. 3; Bigot 1892: 216; Sen 1921: 33.

Diopsis hoarseiana Westwood : Macquart 1851: 270, pl. 27, fig. 12.

Zygocephala hearsejana (Wiedemann) (error for Zygocephala hearseiana (Westwood)) : Rondani 1875: 443, 1876: 184 (as Zygocephala hearseiana (Wiedemann)) .

Sphyracephala hearseiana (Westwood) View in CoL : Loew 1873: 102; Hennig 1941 a: 61; Mathur 1957: 183; Steyskal 1972: 13, 1977: 34; Kumar 1978 a: 63, 1978 b: 201, 1979 a: 95, 1979 b: 143; Feijen 1989: 67; Mitra et al. 2005: 151, 2011: 187; Parui et al. 2006: 101; Mitra & Parui 2007: 70; Mitra & Bhattacharya 2010: 394; Dutta Saha et al. 2012: 534; Dhamorikar 2016: 100, pl. 20c, 2017: fig. 17; Feijen et al. 2017: 85.

Sphyracephala hearseyana (Westwood) : Osten Sacken 1882: 235; Van der Wulp 1896: 172; Brunetti

1907: 163, 1919: 369; Howlett 1909: 629; Hennig 1958: 567. Sphyracephala hearseyiana (Westwood) (also as hearseiyana): Hennig 1941 b: 5. Sphracephala hearseyana (Westwood) : Nayar & Tandon 1962 a: 113, 1962 b: 131, 1963: 1; Singh et al. 1962: 79. Not Sphyracephala hearseiana sensu Bezzi 1922: 69 View in CoL . African records are misidentifications of

Sphyracephala beccarii (Rondani) .

Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal), Pakistan (Islamabad, Punjab).

Remarks: Steyskal (1972) mentioned East Pakistan as distribution record, but he probably just interchanged Bengal with East Pakistan (like he did for D. indica , see below). Datta and Biswas (1985) definitely placed S. hearseiana on record for Bangladesh. The Pakistan records are based on 12 specimens in BMNH (Islamabad, Daman-e-Koh, 26.iii.1985, M.E. Irwin), on Koçak and Kemal (2015: 293) and on records in the BOLD Systems database. In Tamil Nadu (Burlier, 38 km south of Ooty), the two Indian Sphyracephala species were collected together.