Lispe scalaris 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 : 29

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
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scientific name	Lispe scalaris Loew, 1847
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Lispe scalaris Loew, 1847 View in CoL

Holotype. Female. Turkey . Syntypes. 1 male, 2 females of Lispa persica Becker, 1904 , junior synonym of L. scalaris . Iran .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.0–4.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate silver pruinose, with a shining black spot close to the ocelli. Parafacial and face golden pruinose. Gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle broad, brown, upper half shiny, reaching oral margin. Male fronto-orbital plate with few setulae. Antenna brown, apex of pedicel yellow. Arista brown, bare on apical half. Palpus yellow, abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey dusted, 2 broad shiny dark brown lateral vittae. Scutellum shiny dark brown on posterior half. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3, all long. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae grey dusted; trochanters yellow; femora brown, grey dusted, yellow at apex; tibiae yellow and tarsi brownish-yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 1 short posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median short posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 short median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal; 1 short 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 key to the Palaearctic species of Lispe by Hennig (1960), who illustrated the male terminalia (1960, figs 138, 158, plate 19 fig. 380, plate 20 fig. 395). It belongs to the scalaris -group of Lispe (Hennig 1960) . See comments on this group under Lispe nubilipennis . A long series of males and females in the ZMHU collection.