Lispe rufitibialis, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 88

rufitibialis Macquart, 1843 , Lispe

Lispe rufitibialis Macquart, 1843: 168 ( 1844: 325) , pl. 22, figs 7, 7a. Lectotype ♂, “du Brésil ou du Chili. M. Gaudichaud. Muséum.” ( Brazil), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — Described from the ♂ sex only, but the syntypes under no. 1878 of the Macquart collection in MNHN are 1 ♂ and 1 ♀. As already remarked in this paper, species of Lispe Latreille, 1796 , were commonly mis-sexed by Macquart and other 19th century workers. Macquart was also unsure whether the type-locality was Brazil or Chile. The ♂ has the accession no. 1941.33 and the ♀ 1945.33, both of which refer to collections made by Gaudichaud in Brazil. The ♂ has been attacked by beetle larvae, and the eyes and frons have been eaten away ; left wing, left mid leg and right foretibia + tarsus missing. It has an old hand-written tag “312”, and it is labelled by Macquart “ Lispe / rufitibialis”. I have labelled it and designate it herewith as lectotype. The ♀ is in rather better condition, and I have labelled it as paralectotype.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — This species belongs to the genus Lispe Latreille, 1796 ( Carvalho et al. 2005: 159), and is a good species close to L. vilis Stein, 1911 . It has palpi yellow; dorsocentrals 2 + 4; katepisternals 1 + 2; meron bare; forefemur with thick posteroventral to ventral hairs along most of length; foretibia with a short posterior seta; mid tibia with one posterodorsal but zero anterodorsal seta; hind femur with one anteroventral at middle and one at tip, and with 1-2 posteroventrals near base; hind tibia with one anterodorsal, one posterodorsal and one anteroventral; vein M curved forward in apical part.