Lispoides pubiceps ( 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 : 32-34

Lispoides pubiceps ( Stein, 1911)

Paralectotype. Female. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 482). Peru .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.5 mm (female). Head. Frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper half and siver pollinose on lower half. Parafacial, face and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle grey dusted, reaching halfway to lunule. Fronto-orbital plate along its entire length with several setulae, some of them quite long. Eye with many hairs. Antenna dark brown; pedicel with 2 long 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 dark brown, grey dusted, with 5 dark brown vittae; with some fine and quite long ground-setulae in addition to the usual setae. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Haltere brownish. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Mid tibia with 3 posterior, 2 anterodorsal and 1 anteroventral setae. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Clear. Costal spine very short, but distinct. Abdomen. Brown, grey dusted, with a median dark brown vitta and dark brown triangular spots on tergites 1+2–4. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. It can be separated from its congeners by the haired eyes, and can also be identified with the key by Stein (1911, as Limnophora pubiceps ).