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 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 ).