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 barbitarsis
Stein, 1911
Figs 29–32
Paralectotype
. Male.
Lectotype
inSMT, designated by
Pont (2001: 465)
.
Bolivia
.
Diagnosis. Length of body. 8.0 mm (male). Head. Margins of male frons almost touching just below ocellar triangle. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Eye with some sparse hairs. Antenna and arista dark brown, tip of postpedicel rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose, with 3 brown vittae before suture, joined in the middle as a transverse band after suture. Dorsocentrals 0+2. Intraalars 0+0. Lower katepisternum with only the posterior katepisternal seta developed. Haltere yellow. Calypters white, margins light brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Fore tarsus with a complete dorsal row of moderate setae. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae, 1 posterior and 1 posterodorsal. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral, both short and fine; without a posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus very reduced. Wing. Smoky brown, darker on anterior margin. Costal spine indistinct.
Remarks. A very distinct species; the male can be immediately recognized by the dorsocentral setae and the row of setae on fore tarsus.