Lispe nana Macquart, 1835

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 : 24

Lispe nana Macquart, 1835

Syntypes. 1 male, 1 female of Lispe pulchella Loew, 1847 , junior synonym of L. nana . Turkey, Greece, Italy (including Sicily) .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0– 4.5 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle narrow, brown, reaching lunule. Male fronto-orbital plate setulose. Antenna and arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa strong. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+2. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae and femora brown grey dusted, apex of femora yellow; tibiae yellow; tarsi yellowish-brown. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta; 1 anterodorsal and 1 posterodorsal preapical seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 anterodorsal and 1 posterodorsal setae, both median; without anteroventral; 1 short dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. It can be identified with the key by Hennig (1960) to Palaearctic Lispe and by Pont (1991) to the Arabian species of Lispe . The male and female terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-figs 90, 124, 139, plate 19 fig. 383, plate 20 fig. 397). Hennig (1960) did not place this species in any group. Vikhrev (2014) established a Lispe nana -complex and gave a key to the constituent species.