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 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 ).