Lispe nivalis Wiedemann, 1830

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 : 25

Lispe nivalis Wiedemann, 1830

Syntypes. 4 males, 3 females of Lispa elephantina Becker, 1903 , a junior synomyn of L. nivalis . Egypt .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0–6.0 mm (male), 5.5–6.5 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons more than one-third of head-width, dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Parafacial silver pruinose, brownish on upper half. Face and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle almost indistinct. Male fronto-orbital plate setulose. Antenna and arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus brown, abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa moderate. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey dusted; 1 brown median vitta and 2 broad dark brown lateral vittae. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 1+4, the first 2 postsutural pairs very short. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae grey dusted; trochanters yellow; femora brown with a white grey dust, mainly on hind femur; fore tibia and tarsi brownish; mid and hind tibiae and tarsi yellowish. Fore coxa with a tuft of setae ventrally. Fore tibia without a posterior median 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, without preapical dorsal. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. It can be identified with the keys by Hennig (1960) and by Pont (1991). The male and female terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-figs 89, 137, plate 19 fig. 374, plate 20 fig. 398). Hennig (1960) did not group this species. More recently, Vikhrev (2014) keyed and illustrated the species and assigned it to his nivalis -group of Lispe .