Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Author Couri, Márcia courimarcia@gmail. Author Pont, Adrian Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom. pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com text Zoologia 2020 e 46879 2020-08-28 37 1 57 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879 journal article 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879 1984-4689 13175972 6995FEC3-00D4-48C4-97D9-93FB9435B912 Lispe palposa ( Walker, 1849 ) Syntypes . 1 male , 5 females of Lispa nigromaculata Stein, 1898 , junior synonym of L. palposa . U.S.A. 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).