Lispe assimilis Wiedemann, 1824

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 : 16

Lispe assimilis Wiedemann, 1824

Syntype. 1 male of Lispe modesta Stein, 1913 , junior synonym of Lispe assimilis . Ethiopia.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle narrow, brown. Fronto-orbital plate setulose. Antenna and arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa strong. Thorax. Scutum dark brown. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4, only the last 2 long. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown grey dusted, femoro-tibial joints yellow; tibiae yellowish. 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 median anterodorsal, 1 submedian anteroventral and 1 supramedian posterodorsal; 1 anterodorsal and 1 anteroventral preapical setae. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M curved forward at apex. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks.It can be identified with the keys by Emden (1941, as Lispe modesta ) to the Afrotropical species, by Hennig (1960) to the Palaearctic species, and by Pont (2019) to the Australian species of Lispe . Morphological characters and the male and female terminalia were illustrated by Pont (2019, figs 304–316).