Lispe patellitarsis Becker 1914

Lispe patellitarsis Becker, 1914

(Figs. 1 J; 2D; 27–29; 31M, N) Lispa patellitarsis Becker, 1914: 87.

Lispe hamanae Hori & Kurahashi, 1966: 101.

Lispe patellitarsis Becker: Fan, 1992: 371; Xue & Chao, 1996: 1006; Xue & Zhang, 2005: 119; Zhang et al., 2005: 356.

Material examined. 1 male, China: Guangdong: Zhanjiang, 19.XI.1982, Coll. A.M. Yao; 2 males and 1 female, China: Liaoning: Jingzhou, 9.VIII.2014, Coll. X.Y. Li. All in MBFU.

Redescription. Male. Body length: 5.1–5.3 mm. Head (Figs. 27 B, C, D): Eye bare, facet expanded on anterior margin in median part, about 2.0 times of upper part of the facet; frons broad on vertex, towards anterior becoming narrow, median part about 0.28–0.31 times of head-width; frontal vitta, frontal triangle and frontal-orbital plate with obvious boundary; fronto-orbital plate, parafacial plate and gena with dense silvery grey pollinosity; frontal vitta black, without pollinosity, about 1.8 times as wide as fronto-orbital plate, frontal triangle distinctly broad, gloss black, without pollinosity, reaching to lunule, upper orbital setae 2, frontal setae 5 and with 1 setae row on outer part; parafacial bare, about 4/5 wide as postpedicel; facial ridge a little projecting, concave; postpedicel dark brown, about 2.9–3.3 times as long as broad (1.5–1.7 times as long as pedicel), arista ciliated, longest setula equal to 1/4 width of postpedicel; face furvous, planate, without facial carina; epistoma not projecting to vibrissal angle; vibrissa weak, equal to length of distance between them; gena with 1 row of up-dip setae on anterior upper margin; genal height about 1/5 of eye height; postocular setae 3 rows, posteriormost row situated in occiput; postgena with black setulae; proboscis short, labella small, with 2 prestomal teeth on posterior margin, prementum shinning; palpi brownish black, compressed, towards apex becoming spoon-shaped, on apex inner surface setulose and outer surface bare.

Thorax: Ground color black with dense silvery grey pollinosity; acr 0+1 (trichoid), presutural 7–8 rows of acrostichal setulae; dc 0+1; ia 0+2; without pra; basal and apical scutellar setae all developed; scutellum bare on lateral surfaces and underneath; notopleuron bare; anepimeron with numerous bristles; prosternum, meron and katepimeron bare; anterior spiracle yellow, posterior spiracle brown and small and with 2 or 3 setae on posterior lower margin; katepisternal setae 1+2.

Wings: Brown; slightly hyaline; veins becoming brown apically; tegula, basicosta and subcostal sclerite brownish yellow; costal spine slightly shorter than vein r-m; vein C with ventral setulae; other veins bare; vein R4+5, M and crossvein dm-cu straight; calypteres yellowish white; haltere yellow; cell r2+3 with dark cloud; WIPs with 4 demarcated bands (blue, magenta, yellow and cyan), of which blue band large and cyan band narrow (Figs. 31 M, N).

Legs: Black except basal femur; distal 1/4 of fore tibia, mid and hind tarsi and knees yellow; fore tibia with 1 submedian p; mid femur with 1 row of lodging pv; mid tibia with 1 submedian p; hind femur with short av and pv rows; hind tibia with 1 preapical av, 1 preapical ad and ad rows; first hind tarsomere dictinctly shortened and swollen, (Fig. 1 J), swollen part elongated to basal half of second hind tarsomere and with tuft; second hind tarsomere compressed, median part ridgy and jubate from posterior view; tarsi shorter than tibiae; claws and pulvilli small.

Abdomen: Ground color black; oval; with dense grey pollinosity; tergites 1–3 with light black patches in the middle, tergite 4 with a large triangular lateral brown patches, tergite 5 dusted with brown patches on posterior margin (Fig. 27 F), 1/2 apex of tergite 5 with brown patches.

Female. Body length 5.4–5.6 mm. General characters as in male but differing from male in: genal height about 1/4 of eye height; wing without cloud; first hind tarsomere not swollen; tergites 3 and 4 with median stripe (Fig. 29 D).

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Liaoning), Japan, South Korea.