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 text 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).