Lispoides diluta ( Stein, 1911 )

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 : 31-32

Lispoides diluta ( Stein, 1911)

Lectotype. Male. Paralectotype. 1 female. Lectotype designated by Pont (2001: 469). Chile .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.8 mm (male), 6.0 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, less than one-third of head-width. Frons straight, dark brown. Fronto-orbital plate broad, silver pruinose, bare. Parafacial, face and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle silver pruinose, almost reaching halfway to lunule. Eye bare. Antenna dark brown; pedicel with 2 moderate setae and a few other short setae. Arista dark brown, very short pubescent. Palpus dark brown, with many setae. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum grey pale dusted, with 3 faint brown vittae; with few ground-setulae. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown, grey dusted, trochanters and femoro-tibial joints yellow; tarsi brownish, yellow on ventral surface. Fore femur and tibia without fine and long anterodorsal, dorsal and posterodorsal rows of setae. Fore tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterodorsal setae. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Clear. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Brown, grey pollinose, with a faint median brown vitta on tergites 3–5 and lateral brown rounded spots on tergites 3 and 4. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The species can be identified in the key by Stein (1911, as Limnophora diluta ).