Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Author
Couri, Márcia
courimarcia@gmail.
Author
Pont, Adrian
Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom. pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com
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Zoologia
2020
e 46879
2020-08-28
37
1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
journal article
10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
1984-4689
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Lispe angustipalpis
Stein, 1920a
Lectotype
. Male. Designated by
Pont (1970: 78)
.
Indonesia
(
Java
).
Diagnosis. Length of body.
5.3 mm
(male). Head. Frons brown, broad, about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, face and parafacial golden pruinose. Gena silver pruinose. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose. Antenna and arista dark brown; tip of postpedicel rounded. Palpus yellow on basal third and brown on apical half, gradually enlarged towards apex and not very dilated. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum with 3 dark brown vittae. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4, the first 2 postsutural pairs very short. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Meron with short setulae above hind coxa. Legs. Coxae grey dusted, yellow posteriorly; femora brown, grey dusted, yellow at tip; tibiae yellow and tarsi brown. Fore tibia without posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical.Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine distinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.
Remarks. The species can be identified in the keys by
Vikhrev (2012a
, 2016). Habitus illustrated by
Vikhrev (2012a
, figs 6 and 8). It belongs to the
pumila
-group of
Lispe
, characterized by dorsocentrals 2+4, the 4 anterior ones short; fore tibia without median seta; mid tibia with 1 posterodorsal; hind tibia with 1 anteroventral and 1 anterodorsal; meron with setulae above hind coxa; pulvillus small (Vikhrev 2016). In a more recent revision of the Australian species of
Lispe
by
Pont (2019)
, the species was keyed and fully redescribed, and characters of the male and female terminalia were illustrated (
Pont 2019
, figs 473–480).