Lispe leucocephala Loew, 1856

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 : 21

Lispe leucocephala Loew, 1856

Figs 101–104

Syntypes. 2 males, 1 female. Egypt .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0– 4.5 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons about one-third of head-width. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle broad, silver pruinose, with convex margins and reaching lunule.Male fronto-orbital plate and parafacial almost bare.Antenna dark brown; postpedicel very short. Arista short, dark brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, abruptly dilated in the apical portion which is densely silver pruinose. Vibrissa absent. Thorax. Scutum grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Lower katepisternal strong, forming an equilateral triangle with the upper two setae. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown, grey dusted; tarsi yellowish brown. Fore tibia with 1 posterior median seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 median anteroventral seta; without anterodorsal and posterodorsal setae; 1 long dorsal in apical fourth; 1 preapical anterodorsal. Hind tarsomere 1 enlarged and setulose. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The species can be recognized by the broad and silver pruinose ocellar triangle; very short antenna; absence of vibrissa; palpus densely silver pruinose at apex; and hind tarsomere 1 enlarged and setulose. It can be identified with the key by Hennig (1960) to Palaearctic Lispe . The hind tarsomere 1 was illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-fig. 97). It belongs to the caesia -group of Lispe (Hennig 1960) .