Lispe kowarzi 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 : 21

Lispe kowarzi Becker, 1903

Syntypes. 9 males, 7 females. Egypt. Paralectotype 1male of Lispa pallitarsis Stein, 1909 , ranked as a subspecies of Lispe kowarzi by Vikhrev (2014). Lectotype in NBCL, designated by Pont (1970: 98). Indonesia (Java).

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.5–4.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown on upper half and silver pruinose on lower half. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle shiny dark brown, reaching lunule.Male fronto-orbital plate and parafacial with few setulae. Antenna and arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus brown, abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa strong. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny. Dorsocentrals 1+3, the first postsutural seta very short. Haltere brownish. Calypters white. Legs. Brown; tarsi yellowish, mainly the ventral surface of posterior tarsomeres. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal and 1 anterodorsal setae; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal, 1 anteroventral and 1 posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. It can be identified with the key by Hennig (1960) to Palaearctic Lispe . The male and female terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1960, text-figs 84, 121, 142, plate 19 fig. 377, plate 20 fig. 400). Hennig (1960: 413) did not group this species. Vikhrev (2014) also keyed the species and assigned it to a kowarzi -group of Lispe .