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 thomasseti Emden, 1951 : 422 . Holotype male seen; in good condition. Diagnosis. Body length, male: 3.7 mm ; female: 4.5–5.0 mm; male holoptic; general colour dark brown; postpronotum, notopleuron, a round area before scutellar suture and apex of scutellum grey pollinose; frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena dark brown; antenna, arista and palpus dark brown; haltere yellow; legs brown; frontal triangle short; arista plumose; acrostichal setulae in 4–5 rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae; lower katepisternal 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 2 preapical posterior setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; sternite 1 bare. Notes. Paratype male a little damaged and not dissected.