Lispe rigida Becker, 1903

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 : 28

Lispe rigida Becker, 1903

Syntypes. 2 males, 5 females. Egypt .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.5 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate golden brownish pruinose. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle broad, golden brownish pruinose, reaching lunule. Fronto-orbital plate setulose. Antenna brown, apex of pedicel yellow. Arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny, with 2 grey dusted lateral areas close to suture and a transverse band before scutellum. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Mostly brown, posterior surface of coxae and ventral surfaces of fore and mid tarsi yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 1 long posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal and 1 posterodorsal setae, both median; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal seta; without anteroventral and posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 with very few setulae.

Remarks. It can be identified in the keys by Hennig (1960) to the Palaearctic species of Lispe and by Pont (1991) to the Arabian species.