Lispe brunnicosa Becker, 1904

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 19

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.