Lispe melaleuca Loew, 1847

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 : 22

Lispe melaleuca Loew, 1847

Syntypes. 4 males, 2 females. Italy (Sicily) .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.5 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose.Ocellar triangle brown, reaching lunule.Male fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose.Antenna brown, apex of pedicel yellow. Arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, gradually enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa strong. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Lower katepisternal strong, forming an equilateral triangle with the upper two setae. Haltere brownish. Calypters white. Legs. Mostly brown, tibiae yellow. Fore tibia with 1 posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal and 1 anterodorsal setae; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal; 1 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 . The male and female terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-figs 87, 126, 134, plate 19 fig. 379, plate 20 fig. 402). Hennig (1960) placed it with some doubts in his uliginosa -group of Lispe . It was also keyed and illustrated by Vikhrev (2015), who confirmed its position in the uliginosa -group.