Lispe quadrilineata, Macquart, 1835

Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera), Zoosystema 34 (1), pp. 39-111 : 82

quadrilineata Macquart, 1835 , Lispe

Lispe quadrilineata Macquart, 1835: 315 . Syntype (s) ♀ (♀), “de Bordeaux” ( France, Bordeaux), not in MNHN or MHNL, and presumed destroyed.

MATERIAL. — Described from an unspecified number of ♀♀. No syntypes have been located.

CURRENT IDENTITY. — This species has always been assigned to the genus Lispe Latreille, 1796 , but neither Becker (1904: 66-67) nor Hennig (1960b: 461) was able to make a specific identification. Since vein M is curved forward in its apical section (“première cellule postérieure des ailes rétrécie à l’extrémité”), L. quadrilineata must belong to the Lispe longicollis -group ( Hennig 1960a: 413). There are only two European species in this group, L. longicollis Meigen, 1826 (with yellow tibiae), and L. assimilis Wiedemann, 1824 (see the discussion under Lispe dissimilis Macquart, 1851 above). Macquart’s description agrees best with L. assimilis , and so I have synonymized Lispe quadrilineata with Lispe assimilis Wiedemann, 1824 ( Pont 1986b: 184) .