Lispe tuberculitarsis Stein, 1913

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 tuberculitarsis Stein, 1913

Syntype. Male. South Africa .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons and fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown. Parafacial, face and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle almost indistinct. Fronto-orbital plate setulose. Antenna and arista dark brown; bare on apical third. Palpus dark brown, abruptly enlarged towards apex, without dust. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum almost uniformly shiny dark brown, with 2 small grey dusted lateral areas before scutellum. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey pollinose. Dorsocentrals 1+2. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae and femora brown, grey pollinose, apex of femora yellow; fore tibia yellow at base and apex, grey pollinose on middle third; mid and hind tibiae yellow; fore tarsus partly yellow; mid and hind tarsus yellow. Fore tibia with 1 anterodorsal and 1 posterodorsal setae. Fore tarsomere 2 with a small ventral tubercle. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal seta; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal, 1 submedian anteroventral and 1 median posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The species can be identified in the key by Emden (1941).