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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Thaumasiochaeta longipalpis
(
Stein, 1911
)
Figs 197–200
Paralectotype
. Female.
Lectotype
in SMT, designated by
Pont (2001: 476)
.
Peru
.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
5.5 mm
(female). Head.Female frons broad, about one-third of head-width, brown. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, face and gena strongly silvery pruinose from certain angles. Ocellar triangle indistinct. Ocellar setae very long.Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, bare. Palpus dark brown, very long, enlarged and flat. Oral margin strongly projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum brown; with two lateral grey pruinose vittae from postscutum to margin of scutellum. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Katepisternals 1:2. Haltere brown. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without median seta. Mid tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae, 2 posterodorsals, without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae, 3 anteroventrals, 1 posterodorsal on basal third. Arolium and pulvillus very short. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spines not developed as in the congeners. Abdomen. Brown, broadly grey pollinose.
Figures 181–200.
Syllimnophora setitibia
, paralectotype male: (181) dorsal habitus; (182) lateral habitus; (183) head in frontal view; (184) labels;
Syllimnophora zebrina
, paralectotype male of
Limnophora auriflua
: (185) dorsal habitus; (186) lateral habitus; (187) head in frontal view; (188) labels;
Thaumasiochaeta compressitarsis
, paralectotype female: (189) dorsal habitus; (190) lateral habitus; (191) head in frontal view; (192) labels;
Thaumasiochaeta incaica
, paralectotype male: (193) dorsal habitus; (194) lateral habitus; (195) head in frontal view; (196) labels;
Thaumasiochaeta longipalpis
, paralectotype female: (197) dorsal habitus; (198) lateral habitus; (199) head in frontal view; (200) labels. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.
Remarks. The male can be recognized by the very long palpus and the strongly projecting oral margin. It was keyed by
Couri (1999)
and by
Couri and Carvalho (2002)
. The male and female terminalia were illustrated by
Couri (1999
, figs 51–55).