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 capensis
Paterson, 1955
: 142
.
Holotype male in NMSA. Paratype male seen in BMNH; in good condition.
Diagnosis.
Presutural spots separated posteriorly or wholly fused, sometimes narrowly connected within the presutural band on a median line, but not extending on to postpronotal callosity (which differentiates this species from
L. flavibasis
Stein, 1906
); postsutural dorsocentrals 4; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; costal spine not distinct; first abdominal segments yellow; sternite 5 with a dense patch of thick spines.
Notes.
L. capensis
,
together with
L. terrestris
Paterson, 1955
, keys out to
L. translucida
Stein, 1913
, at couplet 25 of Emden’s (1951) key.
Paterson (1955)
gave a key to separate these three species.
L. terrestris
is herein proposed as a junior synonym of
L. translucida
(
syn. nov.
) (see note under
L
.
translucida
).