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 melaleuca Loew, 1847 Syntypes . 4 males , 2 females . Italy ( Sicily ) . 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 dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose.Ocellar triangle brown, reaching lunule.Male fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose.Antenna brown, apex of pedicel yellow. Arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, gradually enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa strong. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Lower katepisternal strong, forming an equilateral triangle with the upper two setae. Haltere brownish. Calypters white. Legs. Mostly brown, tibiae yellow. Fore tibia with 1 posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal and 1 anterodorsal setae; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose. Remarks. It can be identified with the key by Hennig (1960) to Palaearctic Lispe . The male and female terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-figs 87, 126, 134, plate 19 fig. 379, plate 20 fig. 402). Hennig (1960) placed it with some doubts in his uliginosa -group of Lispe . It was also keyed and illustrated by Vikhrev (2015) , who confirmed its position in the uliginosa -group.