Lispe parcespinosa Becker, 1900

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 : 27

Lispe parcespinosa Becker, 1900

Syntype. Male. Russia. Syntypes. 1 male 1 female of Lispa bohemica Becker, 1904 , ranked as a subspecies of Lispe parcespinosa by Vikhrev (2015). Poland.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (male), 6.0–7.0 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, more than one-third of head-width. Frons yellowish-brown; yellow close to lunule. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle golden pruinose, reaching lunule. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial setulose. Antenna dark brown. Arista short, dark brown; bare on apical third. Palpus yellow, abruptly enlarged towards apex; apex very large.Vibrissa very short and fine.Thorax. Scutum brown, grey pollinose. Postpronotum and notopleuron light grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere brown. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior median seta. Mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior to posterodorsal and 1 anterodorsal setae; without anteroventral. Mid tarsomere 4 with 1 enlarged rod-like apical seta ( Vikhrev 2015, fig. 15). Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal; 1 dorsal preapical. Arolium and pulvillus very reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. This species is placed by Vikhrev (2015) in the palposa group of Lispe and it can be identified by the key in the same paper. Hennig (1960) did not consider L. parcespinosa to be distinct from L. frigida Erichson in Ménétriés, 1851, and so in his key to Palaearctic Lispe it will run to L. frigida . Both species can be recognised by the rod-like apical seta on mid tarsomere 4 ( Vikhrev 2015, fig. 15).