Lispe

Genus of flies

For the snout moth genus, see Myelois.

Not to be confused with Lisp.

Lispe

Male Lispe tentaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Diptera
Family:  | Muscidae
Tribe:  | Limnophorini
Genus:  | Lispe
Latreille, 1796
Type species
Musca tentaculata

De Geer, 1776[1]

Diversity
at least 170 species
Lispe pygmaea

Lispe is a genus of true flies belonging to the family Muscidae.[2]

The adults are predators of small insects. Larvae are also predators, and live in damp sand and mud.[3][4]

## See also

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* List of Lispe species

## References

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1. ^ Coquillett, D.W. (September 1901). "Types of anthomyid genera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 9 (3). New York: The New York Entomological Society: 134–146\. JSTOR 25002949.
2. ^ D'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M. (1968). Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata: Muscidae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 10\. London.: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 118.
3. ^ Gregor, F.; Rozkosny, R.; Bartak, M.; Vanhara, J. (2002). The Muscidae (Diptera) of Central Europe. Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. Vol. 107\. Masaryk.: Masaryk University. p. 280.
4. ^ Kahanpää, Jere (2007). "Draft Catalogue of Finnish Flies (Diptera: Brachycera)". Archived from the original on 2007-05-03. Retrieved 2008-04-22.

Taxon identifiers

Lispe|

* Wikidata: Q6559096
* Wikispecies: Lispe
* AFD: Lispe
* BOLD: 212053
* BugGuide: 168414
* CoL: 5FDS
* EoL: 55545
* EPPO: 1LSPEG
* Fauna Europaea (new): f107c248-af21-4374-80fe-128407d60862
* GBIF: 1527221
* iNaturalist: 326625
* IRMNG: 1040876
* ITIS: 150756
* NBN: NBNSYS0000134661
* NCBI: 520025
* Open Tree of Life: 759691
* Plazi: D15D9E93-BE98-FB26-79A9-2B1FC15737F5
* WoRMS: 150994

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