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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Limnophora discreta
Stein, 1898
Figs 234–237
Syntype
. Male,
1 female
.
U.S.A.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
4.5 mm
(male); 5.0 mm (female). Head. Male frons intermediate. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. 1 pair of reclinate orbitals. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose, with 3 faint brown vittae, the median one reaching scutellum. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal long, closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 1 preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus a little enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. Keyed by
Huckett (1932
, in subgenus
Limnophora
) and again by
Huckett (1965)
.
One male
from Coy Glen,
USA
, dissected and illustrated.