Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species
Author
Couri, Márcia
Author
Pont, Adrian
text
Zootaxa
2017
4216
6
501
536
journal article
37328
10.5281/zenodo.242395
92230737-0e1b-4d86-9c80-6562b0f1793e
1175-5326
242395
FF708257-E9A3-4C91-AD18-50326BB9676A
Limnophora rossi
Zielke, 1974
: 41
.
Holotype female in CAS (not seen).
Diagnosis.
Scutum with an “
Anthomyia
-pattern”, with a continuous uninterrupted dark postsutural band; legs brown; postsutural dorsocentrals 4, the first two short; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 preapical setae, one posterior and one posterodorsal; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare.
Notes.
Described from
Madagascar
, it runs to
L. obsignata
(couplet 23) in Emden’s (1951) key but differs by having a continuous uninterrupted dark postsutural band on scutum, from suture to third dorsocentral.