Lispe tentaculata

6-7.5mm. A medium-sized muscid with a black abdomen and paired grey lateral spots. The genus is characterised by having spoon-shaped palps and a hairy anepimeron. It can be very numerous around the edges of waterways - both running and still.

Other Lispe species.

• 6-7.5mm
• Spoon-shaped yellow palps
• Hairy anepimeron
• Black with grey spots on the abdomen
• Black legs
• Hind femora with 2-5 long ventral bristles
• Males with the basal half of the hind metatarsus swollen

Around water margins.

May - September

Common.

Rare but almost certainly under-recorded.