Lispe sericipalpis Stein, 1904

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13176134
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scientific name	Lispe sericipalpis Stein, 1904
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Lispe sericipalpis Stein, 1904 View in CoL

Holotype. Female of Lispa trilineata Stein, 1906 , a junior synonym of L. sericipalpis . Sri Lanka.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.0–4.0 mm (female). Head. Frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate brown on upper half and golden pruinose on lower half. Parafacial, face and gena silver pruinose. Fronto-orbital plate setulose.Antenna and arista dark brown. Palpus brown, a little grey dusted at tip, abruptly enlarging to apex. Vibrissa moderate. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey dusted, with 5 brown vittae. Dorsocentrals 2+4, only the 2 posterior ones long. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown, grey dusted. Fore tibia without posterior seta. Mid femur with 1 short posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal seta; without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine distinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. This species can be identified with the key by Vikhrev (2011a) to the Palaearctic species of the tentaculata -group (see comments on this group under L. consanguinea ). Vikhrev (2011a, figs 3.1–2, 4, 5.1, as L. sericipalpis ) illustrated the male terminalia. A long series of males and females in the ZMHU collection.