Lispe sexnotata, Macquart, 1843

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 90

sexnotata Macquart, 1843 , Lispe

Lispe sexnotata Macquart, 1843: 167 ( 1844: 324) . Lectotype ♂ (not ♀, as stated by Macquart), “de l’île Bourbon. Muséum.” ( La Réunion), by present designation, in MNHN.

MATERIAL. — There are 2 ♂♂ syntypes in MNHN, under no. 993 of the Macquart collection. As already noted on several occasions in this paper, species of Lispe Latreille, 1796 , were frequently mis-sexed by 19th century workers, with the broad-fronsed ♂♂ being identified as ♀♀. Each syntype has a blue label with the accession no. 4112.33 ( La Réunion, collector Bréon). One also has an old hand-written tag “313” and Macquart’s label “ Lispe / sexnotata”. I have labelled and designate herewith the ♂ with Macquart’s label as lectotype and the 2nd ♂ as paralectotype. The lectotype lacks left foreleg and right mid tarsomeres 3-5, but is otherwise in good condition. With the two syntypes there are two further specimens that are not part of the type-series. One is ♂ and one is too fragmentary even for the sex to be determined. The accession numbers are 1945.33 and 1977.33, which refer to a collection from Cairo, Egypt.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — Both syntypes are conspecific and belong to a distinct species of Lispe known only from La Réunion. It is similar to the widespread Afrotropical L. niveimaculata Stein, 1906 , but differs most strikingly by having dark palpi, forefemur with the row of posteroventral setae complete, lower and anterior katepisternal setae well-developed, and hind femur with 1 submedian anteroventral seta equal in length to femoral depth.

The two non-syntypic specimens are conspecific and are not the same as L. sexnotata .