Lispe cilitarsis Loew, 1856

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 19

Lispe cilitarsis Loew, 1856

Figs 93–96

Syntype. Male. Egypt .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.0 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper half and golden pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle golden pruinose, very straight and reaching lunule. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial with few setulae. Antenna and arista dark brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, gradually enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum brown, with 2 wide dark brown lateral vittae. Postpronotum and notopleuron partially grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Mostly brown; fore leg with femoro-tibial joint and basal half of the tibia yellow; mid and hind legs with tips of femora and all of tibiae yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta; 1 submedian anterodorsal; without anteroventral seta. Hind tibia with 1 submedian anteroventral seta, 1 median posterodorsal; without anterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Mid and hind tarsomere 1 with many short and fine ventral setae with curled tips. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M slightly curved forward towards R 4+5 before apex. Abdomen. Sternite 1 with very few and short setulae.

Remarks. A distinctive species, the male can be easily recognized by the short and curled setae on tarsomere 1 on mid and hind legs. It can be identified with Hennig’s (1960) key to Palaearctic Lispe . The male terminalia were illustrated by (Hennig 1960, text-figs 116, 144, plate 19 fig. 387, plate 20 fig. 411). It belongs to the longicollis -group of Lispe (Hennig 1960) and is characterized by the vein M distinctly curved forward at apex. Pont (1991) and Vikhrev (2012b) also keyed the species.