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 tundrica
(Schnabl, 1911)
Syntype
. Male.
Russia
.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
5.5 mm
(male). Head. Male frons intermediate. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown; parafacial 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 1.5 the width of postpedicel. Thorax. Scutum and pleura dark brown. Acrostichals quite long, especially postsuturally, in 4 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow.Calypters yellowish. Legs. Dark brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae, 2 posterodorsals, 2 anteroventrals and 1 posteroventral. Hind tibia with 1–2 anterodorsal setae; 2–3 anteroventrals; 1 posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown, a little darker along costal vein. Costal margin with well-developed spines, long as far as apex of subcosta and decreasing in size to the apex of vein R
2+3
. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who illustrated the male and female terminalia (Hennig 1959: text-fig. 58a, plate 11 fig. 222, plate 17 fig. 352).