Lispe metatarsata Stein, 1900

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 : 24

Lispe metatarsata Stein, 1900

Lectotype. Male. Designated by Pont (1969: 86). Paralectotype. 1 male. Papua New Guinea .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons, fronto-orbital plate and face silver pruinose. Parafacial and gena yellowish silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle broad, silver pruinose, reaching lunule. Fronto-orbital plate setulose.Antenna with pedicel yellow; postpedicel brown grey dusted, yellow at base. Arista yellowish-brown; bare at apex. Palpus yellow, abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa absent. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny; with a median presutural grey dusted vittae. Dorsocentrals 2+4, the first 2 postsutural pairs very short. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brownish-yellow. Fore tibia with a posterior median seta and 1 anteroventral to ventral. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind tibia without median setae; 1 dorsal preapical. Firest hind tarsomere enlarged and setulose. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. See diagnosis and notes in Pont (2019). It is closely related to Lispe cana ( Walker, 1849) , having a group of setulae on the meron below spiracle.