Lispoides gracilis ( Stein, 1911 )

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 : 32

Lispoides gracilis ( Stein, 1911)

Paralectotypes. 1 male, 1female. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 471). Chile .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.8 mm (male), 7.2 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, face and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle almost indistinct. Fronto-orbital plate with setulae, close to antennal insertion. Eye bare. Antenna dark brown; pedicel with 2 strong setae and some other short setae. Arista dark brown, very short pubescent. Palpus dark brown, with many setae. Vibrissa long. Some genal and postgenal setae, not as long as vibrissa, some of them curved upwards. Thorax. Scutum almost uniformly dark brown; with many fine and quite long ground-setulae in addition to the usual setae. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Dark brown, trochanters and femoro-tibial joints yellow. Fore femur with a posterior row of strong setae, differentiated from the many fine setae on the other surfaces. Fore tibia with 1 posterior to posterodorsal seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Clear. Costal spine very short, but distinct. Abdomen. Mostly brown, grey pollinose in small lateral areas on each tergite. Sternite 1 setulose. Tergite 5 with many long and fine setae.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Stein (1911, as Limnophora gracilis ).