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 riparia
(
Fallén, 1824: 67
)
.
Holotype male of the subspecies
Limnophora riparia capoverdica
Emden (1958: 11)
in ZMUH (not seen).
Diagnosis.
Scutum dark brown, postpronotum and notopleuron with bluish-grey pollinosity; two reclinate orbitals; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with one posterior seta.
Notes.
This species is in the
Calliophrys
Kowarz
group of
Limnophora
, and is one of the few Afrotropical
Limnophora
to have dichoptic males.