Lispe nubilipennis Loew, 1873

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 : 25-26

Lispe nubilipennis Loew, 1873

Holotype. Female. Russia.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.7 mm (female). Head. Frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate dark brown on upper third, golden-silver pollinose on lower two-thirds. Face, parafacial and gena golden-silvery pruinose. Ocellar triangle almost indistinct. Antenna with pedicel yellow and postpedicel dark brown. Arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, silver pruinose at tip; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum pale grey dusted, with 2 broad brown lateral vittae. Dorsocentrals broken. Katepisternals with only the posterior seta long. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae and femora grey pollinose, femora yellow at apex; trochanters yellow; tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal, and 1 dorsal preapical seta. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. With some white and brown spots. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. Male unknown. The species can be identified with Hennig’s (1960) key. It belongs in the scalaris -group of Lispe characterized, among other characters, by the palpus spoon-like at apex; acrostichal setulae in 2 rows; only posterior katepisternal long; spotted wing; fore tibia without median seta; mid tibia without anterodorsal seta and hind tibia without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae. The female habitus was illustrated by Vikhrev (2012a). Vikhrev (2014) gave an identification key for species of the scalaris -group of Lispe .