Lispe simonyi Becker, 1910

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 : 29-30

Lispe simonyi Becker, 1910

Syntypes. 1 male, 1 female. Yemen ( Socotra Island) .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.3 mm (male, female). Head. Male frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown on upper half and silver pollinose on lower half. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Fronto-orbital plate setulose. Ocellar triangle silver pruinose, reaching lunule. Antenna very short, brown, apex of pedicel yellow. Arista dark brown, bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, silver pruinose, abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa short. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, pale grey dusted, with 2 faint brown vittae. Dorsocentrals 2+4, only the last 2 pairs long. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae, femora and tibia brown grey dusted, femoro-tibial joints yellow; tarsi brown. Fore tibia with 1 posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 anterodorsal and 1 anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal; 1 long preapical dorsal.Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. M straight at apex. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose. Abdomen uniformly pale grey dusted in male and with 2 brown vittae on tergite 4 in female.

Remarks. The species runs to Lispe ambigua surda Curran, 1937 in the key by Emden (1941). See note in Emden (1941).