Lispe levis Stein, 1911

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 : 22

Lispe levis Stein, 1911

Paralectotype. Male. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 476). Chile .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.5 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle brown, reaching lunule. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial with many setulae. Antenna brown, apex of pedicel and base of postpedicel yellow. Arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, abruptly enlarged towards apex; densely silver pruinose. Vibrissa strong. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey pollinose, with 5 faint brown vittae. Postpronotum and notopleuron pale dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae and femora brown grey pollinose; posterior surface of coxae and apex of femora yellow; tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore tibia with 1 posterior median seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. Keyed by Vikhrev (2015) and more recently keyed, redescribed and illustrated by Fogaça and Carvalho (2018, figs 2b, 2d, 2e, 3b, 4b, 5c, 5d, 10b, 14a–e).