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
6995FEC3-00D4-48C4-97D9-93FB9435B912
Limnophora iniqua
(
Stein, 1911
)
Paralectotypes
.
1 male
,
1 female
.
Lectotype
in SMT, designated by
Pont (2001: 475)
.
Chile
.
Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0–
4.2 mm
(male, female). Head. Male frons broad, narrowing from vertex to lunule. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip pointed. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose with 3 brown vittae, the 2 lateral ones wider and reaching the subbasal scutellar setae; scutellum grey pollinose. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal short, closer to the posterior one. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus short. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. This species has the characters of the Old World
Calliophrys
-group of
Limnophora
, with male frons broad and dorsocentrals 2+3.