Lispe niveimaculata Stein, 1906

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 niveimaculata Stein, 1906

Syntypes. 1 male, 1 female. Tanzania .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons and fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown, silver pollinose only close to lunule. Face, parafacial and gena brownish-yellow pruinose. Ocellar triangle indistinct. Male fronto-orbital plate with a few setulae. Antenna and arista brown, pedicel paler at apex; arista bare on apical third. Palpus yellow; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey dusted; 1 brown median vitta and 2 broad dark brown lateral vittae. Dorsocentrals 0+1. Katepisternals 0+0+1. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae silver pruinose; trochanters yellow; femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown, whitish silver dusted. Fore femur with 2–3 differentiated ventral setae in apical third. Fore tibia with 1 submedian posterior seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterodorsal setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae; without preapical dorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. It can be identified with the keys by Emden (1941) to Afrotropical Lispe and by Couri et al. (2006) to Madagascan species.