Lispe desjardinsii Macquart, 1851

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 : 20

Lispe desjardinsii Macquart, 1851

Syntypes. 1 male, 2 females of Lispa remipes Becker, 1913 , junior synonym of L. desjardinsii . Madagascar .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0 mm (male), 6.5–7.0 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle golden pruinose, straight and reaching lunule. Male fronto-orbital plate setulose; parafacial with 2–3 scattered setulae. Antenna and arista dark brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum brown. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Mostly brown; femoro-tibial joints and tibiae yellow. Fore tibia with 1 dorsal and 1 ventral median setae. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal seta, 1 submedian anteroventral and 1 median posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. It can be identified with the key by Couri et al. (2006) to Madagascan species of Lispe . Themale fore tarsus was illustrated by Couri et al. (2006, fig. 101). Vikhrev (2014) also keyed the species and considered it in the desjardinsii -group of Lispe .