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 nubilipennis Loew, 1873 Holotype . Female. Russia . Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.7 mm (female). Head. Frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper third, golden-silver pollinose on lower two-thirds. Face, parafacial and gena golden-silvery pruinose. Ocellar triangle almost indistinct. Antenna with pedicel yellow and postpedicel dark brown. Arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, silver pruinose at tip; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum pale grey dusted, with 2 broad brown lateral vittae. Dorsocentrals broken. Katepisternals with only the posterior seta long. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae and femora grey pollinose, femora yellow at apex; trochanters yellow; tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal, and 1 dorsal preapical seta. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. With some white and brown spots. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose. Remarks. Male unknown. The species can be identified with Hennig’s (1960) key. It belongs in the scalaris -group of Lispe characterized, among other characters, by the palpus spoon-like at apex; acrostichal setulae in 2 rows; only posterior katepisternal long; spotted wing; fore tibia without median seta; mid tibia without anterodorsal seta and hind tibia without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae. The female habitus was illustrated by Vikhrev (2012a) . Vikhrev (2014) gave an identification key for species of the scalaris -group of Lispe .