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 text 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 6995FEC3-00D4-48C4-97D9-93FB9435B912 Lispe rigida Becker, 1903 Syntypes . 2 males , 5 females . Egypt . Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.5 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate golden brownish pruinose. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle broad, golden brownish pruinose, reaching lunule. Fronto-orbital plate setulose. Antenna brown, apex of pedicel yellow. Arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. 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. Haltere yellow. 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 1 long posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal and 1 posterodorsal setae, both median; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal seta; without anteroventral and posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 with very few setulae. Remarks. It can be identified in the keys by Hennig (1960) to the Palaearctic species of Lispe and by Pont (1991) to the Arabian species.