Lispe superciliosa Loew, 1861

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 : 30

Lispe superciliosa Loew, 1861

Syntype. Male. Austria .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate with very little grey dust and with 2 velvety dark brown areas close to the insertion of antenna. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle golden pruinose, not reaching lunule. Fronto-orbital plate setulose. Antenna and arista dark brown; bare on apical third. Palpus brown, abruptly enlarged towards apex; apex very large. Vibrissa moderate. 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, all long. Haltere brown. Calypters white, with margins yellow. Legs. Brown, grey dusted. Fore tibia with 1 short posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 3–5 long anterodorsal setae on apical half; 1 median posterior to posterodorsal; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with an anterodorsal and posterodorsal series of fine setae in male and 1 median anterodorsal in female; without anteroventral and posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus short. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. It can be identified by the chaetotaxy of mid tibia, and also with the key by Hennig (1960) to the Palaearctic species of Lispe . It belongs to the palposa -group of Lispe (Hennig 1960) (see comments on the group under L. elkantarae ). The male and female terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-figs 83, 132, plate 19 fig. 375, plate 20 fig. 394). It was also keyed and illustrated by Vikhrev (2015). A large serie of males and females in the ZMHU collection.