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
Spilogona taeniata
(
Stein, 1916
)
Holotype
. Male.
Georgia
.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
5.5 mm
(male). Head. Male holoptic. Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown, grey dusted from certain angles. Ocellar triangle short. Ocellar setae long. Eye with sparse hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura dark brown. Presutural acrostichals in 2 rows. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Notopleuron with few setulae close to posterior seta. Anepisternum with 1 interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Dark brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta, 2 posterodorsals and 2 posteroventrals. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; 3 anteroventrals; 3 posterodorsals. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown, darker near base. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who illustrated the male terminalia Hennig (1959, plate 12 fig. 238, plate 18 fig. 355).