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
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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.