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
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Limnophora stragula
(
Séguy, 1950: 280
)
.
(
Figs 108–111
)
Holotype male seen (in MNHNP); holotype male of
Limnophora leptopus
Emden 1951
: 316
(junior synonym of
L. stragula
) seen (BMNH); mid and hind legs missing.
Diagnosis.
Medium sized species (5.0 mm); general colour brown with grey pollinosity, scutum brown, a little shining; postpronotum, notopleuron, area before scutellum, base of scutellum and all pleura grey pollinose; frons brown; fronto-orbital plate, face and parafacial grey pollinose in certain lights; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere yellow; legs brown, coxae with grey pollinosity; frons of male narrower than in female; 2 pairs of orbital setae, directed backwards and outwards; frontal triangle long, reaching lunule; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 4 irregular rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae and many setulae on disc; lower katepisternal absent; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; first fore tarsomere long in male; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 setulose; sternite 5 as in
Fig. 108
.
Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in
Figs 109–110
. Aedeagal complex as in
Fig. 111
.
Notes.
One male from Madagascar dissected and illustrated.