Lispe salina Aldrich, 1913

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 : 28

Lispe salina Aldrich, 1913

Syntypes. 1 male, 1 female. U.S.A.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.0 mm (male), 7.3 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 golden pruinose. Parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle brown, reaching lunule.Male fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose. Antenna and arista dark brown, bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, abruptly enlarged towards apex which is very large. Vibrissa moderate. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny, with 2 grey dusted lateral areas close to suture and a transverse band before scutellum. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3, all long. Haltere with the knob brown. Calypters white. Legs. Mostly brown, posterior surface of coxae and ventral surfaces of fore and mid tarsi yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 posterodorsal and 1 anterodorsal setae, both median; without anteroventral. Male hind femur with a posteroventral row of many brownish-yellow setae on basal half. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus very reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.Male sternite 5 with many long hairs on posterior margin ( Snyder 1954, fig. 52). Female with a transverse shiny yellow band on base of tergites 4 and 5.

Remarks. It can be identified with the key by Snyder (1954) to the Nearctic species. The male and female terminalia were illustrated by Snyder (1954, figs 33, 52, 64, 76). It belongs to the palposa -group of Lispe (Hennig 1960, Snyder 1954) (see comments on this group under L. elkantarae ).