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
57
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
journal article
10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
1984-4689
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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
).