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
57
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
journal article
10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879
1984-4689
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Spilogona scutulata
(Schnabl, 1911)
Figs 149–152
Syntypes
.
3 males
,
2 females
of
Limnophora signata
Stein, 1914
, junior synonym of
S. scutulata
.
Germany
and
Poland
.
Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.0–4.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male frons intermediate. Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena silver shiny. Ocellar triangle short. Ocellar setae short. Eye without hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about 1.5 times the width of postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum grey dusted with a broad postsutural median brown vitta; with few ground-setulae; scutellum brown. Acrostichals developed, in 2 regular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum withoutinterspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae and femora brown, grey dusted; tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; 1–2 anteroventrals; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine short, but distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who also gave illustrations of the male and female terminalia (Hennig 1959, text-fig. 58k, plate 10 fig. 204, plate 17 fig. 338).