Lispe barbipes Stein, 1908

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 : 16-18

Lispe barbipes Stein, 1908

Figs 81–84

Syntypes. 1 male, 1 female. Botswana .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.0 mm (male), 7.5 (female). Head. Male frons broad, rather more than one-third of head-width. Frons and fronto-orbital plate brown, pale dusted. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose, especially densely close to lunule. Ocellar triangle golden pruinose, reaching lunule. Antenna and arista dark brown; tip of postpedicel rounded. Arista enlarged on basal half, with few hairs, confined to middle third, more numerous on dorsal surface. Palpus yellow, large, gradually enlarged towards apex; not spoon shaped. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, with faint traces of 3 brown vittae. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae brown grey dusted; mid tibia and basal half of hind tibia yellow. Fore tibia with a complete row

(83) head in frontal view; (84) labels; Lispe biseta , syntype female: (85) dorsal habitus; (86) lateral habitus; (87) head in frontal view; (88) labels; Lispa odessae , holotype male: (89) dorsal habitus; (90) lateral habitus; (91) head in frontal view; (92) labels; Lispe cilitarsis , syntype male: (93) dorsal habitus; (94) lateral habitus; (95) head in frontal view; (96) labels; Lispe consanguinea , syntype male: (97) dorsal habitus; (98) lateral habitus; (99) head in frontal view; (100) labels. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.

of setae on posteroventral and posterorodorsal surfaces; 1 dorsal apical seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Male hind tibia with 1 anterodorsal, 1 anteroventral and 1 posterodorsal median setae; many long anteroventral to ventral setae on apical half, most of them with curled tips. Male hind first tarsomere also with long setae with curled tips in apical third. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine distinct. M slightly curved at apex towards R

4+5

. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Emden (1941), and the male can be easily recognized by the chaetotaxy of hind tibia. Vikhrev (2012b, 2014) keyed the species and included it in the longicollis -group of Lispe .