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 brunnicosa Becker, 1904 Holotype . Male of Lispa diminuata Becker, 1913 , junior synonym of L. brunnicosa . Tajikistan . Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.0 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper half and golden pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle indistinct. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose. Antenna brown, apical margin of pedicel yellow. Arista dark brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, abruptly dilated in apical part. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum dark brown. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere yellow. Calypters white with yellow margins. Legs. Dark brown; femoro-tibial joints yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior to posterodorsal seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal seta; 1 submedian anterodorsal; without anteroventral seta. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae; 2 dorsal preapicals; a row of ventral setae on apical third. Hind tarsomere 1 enlarged and setulose. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose. Remarks. This species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1960) to Palaearctic species of Lispe . The male terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-fig. 148, plate 19 fig. 382, plate 20 fig. 408). Hennig (1960) did not group this species.