Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Couri, Márcia Pont, Adrian Zoologia 2020 e 46879 2020-08-28 37 1 57 6QK6J (Walker, 1849) Walker 1849 [945,1292,1058,1085] Insecta Muscidae Lispe Animalia Diptera 25 26 Arthropoda species palposa  Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (male), 6.0– 6.5 mm(female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons and fronto-orbital plate dark brown. Face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle almost indistinct. Male fronto-orbital plate with few setulae. Antenna and arista brown; bare on apical third. Palpus brown; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa absent. 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. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown, grey dusted, tip of femora yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal and 1 posterodorsal setae, both median; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose. Remarks. The Nearctic species were revised by Snyder (1954), who also gave an identification key with which this species can be identified. 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 Snyder (1954, figs 31, 49, 63, 75). United States of America U. S. A. 25 26 6 5 1 syntype