Lispe Latreille, 1796

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, Zootaxa 2503 (1), pp. 1-61 : 42

Genus Lispe Latreille

Lispe Latreille, 1796: 169 . Type-species: Musca tentaculata De Geer, 1776 , by subsequent monotypy ( Latreille, 1802: 462).

Diagnosis. Male dichoptic; fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose; palpus enlarged apically, spatulate; prestomal teeth strongly developed; without setae on frontal vitta or proclinate orbital setae; prosternum and proepisternal depression bare; dorsocentral setae 0–2+2–4; prealar seta absent; anepimeron setulose in centre; lower proepimeral seta upcurved; katepisternals 1+2; sternite 1 setulose; male: surstylus (gonopod) absent; female: ovipositor with segment 8 directed upwards and with spinules; hypoproct elongated and with spines.

Comments. Four species of Lispe have been recorded from New Caledonia: L. assimilis Wiedemann (as incerta Malloch ), L. cana (Walker) , L. cyrtoneurina Stein and L. nicobarensis Schiner (as binotata Becker ), all of them represented by a very small number of specimens. Lispe cyrtoneurina was recorded by Shinonaga et al. (1991) but was in fact a misidentification of L. bengalensis (Robineau-Desvoidy) (verified by Dr Shinonaga at NSMT in an email to the authors on 21 August 2009).