Lispoides triplex ( 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 : 34

Lispoides triplex ( Stein, 1911)

Fig. 245

Paralectotypes. 2 males, 3 females. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 486). Chile .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons less than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Parafacial, and face silver pruinose. Gena mostly dark brown. Ocellar triangle with very little grey dust, short, not reaching halfway to lunule. Fronto-orbital plate with few setulae, close to antennal insertion. Eye bare. Antenna dark brown; pedicel with 2 moderate setae and some other short setae. Arista dark brown, very short pubescent. Palpus dark brown, with some 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 3 dark brown vittae, the median one straight and the lateral ones broad and reaching apex of scutellum. With a few fine and quite long ground-setulae in addition to the usual setae. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without median setae. Mid tibia with 3 posterior setae on middle third. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown on costal margin, darker at base in male. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Dark brown, with a median dark brown vitta and lateral quadrangular dark brown spots on tergites 1+2–4. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Stein (1911, as Limnophora triplex .). Like L. pubiceps , it also has haired eyes but lacks the median seta on fore tibia. Aedeagus as in Fig. 245.