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 Limnophora uniseta Stein, 1916 Lectotype . Male. Paralectotype 1 female . Lectotype designated by Lyneborg (1965: 217) . Sweden . Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5 mm (male), 6.0 (female). Head. Eyes of male separated by a distance similar to the width of the ocellar triangle, a little approximated on middle line. Female frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena brown. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum dark brown. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the posterior seta. Katepisternum with many setae on disc. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 median posterior setae. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare. Remark. This species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959).