Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species
Author
Couri, Márcia
Author
Pont, Adrian
text
Zootaxa
2017
4216
6
501
536
journal article
37328
10.5281/zenodo.242395
92230737-0e1b-4d86-9c80-6562b0f1793e
1175-5326
242395
FF708257-E9A3-4C91-AD18-50326BB9676A
Limnophora pluripila
Emden, 1951
: 388
.
Holotype male seen; in good condition.
Diagnosis.
Small species (
2.2 mm
); general colour brown, scutum and scutellum uniformly brown; frons brown; face and parafacial silver pollinose; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere brown; legs brown; male dichoptic; 2 orbital setae directed backwards and outwards, the upper one longer; frontal triangle short; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 4 rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae; lower katepisternal weak, inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 1 preapical posterior seta; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare.
Notes.
Known only from the male
holotype
from
Uganda
.