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
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Zoologia
2020
e 46879
2020-08-28
37
1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
journal article
10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
1984-4689
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Limnophora latevittata
Schnabl, 1911
Lectotype
.Male.
Paralectotypes
.
4males
,
4 females
(
5 males
,
5 females
in
Pont and Werner 2006
, one pair could not be found).
Lectotype
of
Limnophora variabilis
Stein, 1916
, junior synonym of
L. latevittata
. Designated by Hennig (1959: 383).
Germany
.
Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.0 mm (male, female). Head. Frons brown, intermediate in male. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with 3 brown vittae fused postsuturally as far as level of third dorsocentral seta; postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Scutellum dark brown. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal closer to the posterior seta. Katepisternum with some extra setae. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. This species can be identified with Hennig’s (1959) key to
Limnophora
(as
L. variabilis
). The male terminalia were illustrated by
Lyneborg (1965
, figs 7–9, as
L. variabilis
).