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 nicobarensis Schiner, 1868 Figs 109–112 Syntypes . 3males , 4 females of Lispa binotata Becker, 1914 , junior synonym of L. nicobarensis . Taiwan . Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.5–4.0 mm (male), 6.0 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons and fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown, silver pollinose only close to lunule. Face, parafacial and gena yellowish silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle dark brown, reaching lunule. Male fronto-orbital plate with few setulae. Antenna and arista brown; arista bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, silver pruinose at tip; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa absent. Thorax. Scutum uniformy shiny brown. Dorsocentrals 0+1. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae silver pruinose; trochanters yellow; femora, tibiae and tarsi brown; apex of femora and base of tibiae yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia elongated, with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae; 1 dorsal preapical, very fine. Hind tibia of male with long and fine ventral setae on apical half. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight.Abdomen.Shiny brown, concolourous with scutum, with 2 rounded lateral silver pruinose spots close to anterior margin of tergite 4. Sternite 1 setulose . Remarks. The species can be recognized by its shiny black general coloration and by the reduced setation of the scutum, with dorsocentrals 0+1 among other characters. Keyed and illustrated by Vikhrev (2015) , who assigned the species to his nicobarensis -group. Recently Ge et al. (2018) proposed Lispe leigongshana Wei and Yang, 2007 as a junior synonym of this species and gave illustrations of the male and female habitus and the terminalia ( Ge et al. 2018 , figs 5 A–E, 6A–D, 7 A–E). In a more recent revision of the Australian species of Lispe by Pont (2019) , the species was keyed and fully redescribed, and illustrations given of morphological characters and the male and female terminalia ( Pont 2019 , figs 98–107).