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 6995FEC3-00D4-48C4-97D9-93FB9435B912 Heliographa excellens ( Stein, 1900 ) Figs 21–24 Lectotype . Female. Lectotype designated by Pont (1969: 84) . Papua New Guinea . Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (female). Head. Pedicel and postpedicel yellow. Arista dark brown; arista short pubescent. Palpus yellowish-brown. Mouth edge projected forward in lateral view. Thorax. Ground-colour of scutum brown with grey-white pruinose transverse band presuturally and before scutellum, the presutural one complete, not interrupted at middle. Pleura yellowish-grey dusted. Prosternum bare. Anterior spiracle dark brown. Meron bare. Scutellum with lateral margins bare. Wing. R 4+5 at base with 2 setulae on dorsal side and 3–4 on ventral side. Abdomen. Ground-colour orange-yellow, with brown median and lateral spots on tergites 3–5. Sternite 1 with a few setulae. Remarks. Shinonaga and Pont (1988) redescribed the male and female, illustrated the male terminalia, and gave a key for the identification of the Melanesian species of Heliographa which includes H. excellens .