Lispe nicobarensis Schiner, 1868

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 : 24-25

Lispe nicobarensis Schiner, 1868

Figs 109–112

Syntypes. 3males, 4 females of Lispa binotata Becker, 1914 , junior synonym of L. nicobarensis . Taiwan. Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.5–4.0 mm (male), 6.0 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons and fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown, silver pollinose only close to lunule. Face, parafacial and gena yellowish silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle dark brown, reaching lunule. Male fronto-orbital plate with few setulae. Antenna and arista brown; arista bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, silver pruinose at tip; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa absent. Thorax. Scutum uniformy shiny brown. Dorsocentrals 0+1. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae silver pruinose; trochanters yellow; femora, tibiae and tarsi brown; apex of femora and base of tibiae yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia elongated, with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae; 1 dorsal preapical, very fine. Hind tibia of male with long and fine ventral setae on apical half. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight.Abdomen.Shiny brown, concolourous with scutum, with 2 rounded lateral silver pruinose spots close to anterior margin of tergite 4. Sternite 1 setulose .

Remarks. The species can be recognized by its shiny black general coloration and by the reduced setation of the scutum, with dorsocentrals 0+1 among other characters. Keyed and illustrated by Vikhrev (2015), who assigned the species to his nicobarensis -group. Recently Ge et al. (2018) proposed Lispe leigongshana Wei and Yang, 2007 as a junior synonym of this species and gave illustrations of the male and female habitus and the terminalia ( Ge et al. 2018, figs 5 A–E, 6A–D, 7 A–E). In a more recent revision of the Australian species of Lispe by Pont (2019), the species was keyed and fully redescribed, and illustrations given of morphological characters and the male and female terminalia ( Pont 2019, figs 98–107).