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
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Limnophora steini
(
Carvalho & Pont, 1993
)
Holotype
male of
Limnophora atra
Stein, 1904
, a junior primary homonym of
Limnophora atra
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
, and renamed as
Syllimnophora steini
by Carvalho and Pont in
Carvalho et al. (1993)
.
Colombia
.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
6.5 mm
(male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, face and gena uniformly brown. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Arista pubescent. Palpus brown. Thorax. Scutum black. Posterior part of postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Ground-setulae rather long. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters light brownish, with margins darker. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third. Hind tibia with 1 anterodorsal and 1 anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus a little enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown, darker along costal margin. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. This species can be identified with the key by
Stein (1911)
.