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
Limnophora breviventris
Stein, 1915
Figs 33–36
Syntype
. Male.
Taiwan
.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
4.8 mm
(male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons brown, less than one-fourth of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. 1 pair of reclinate orbitals. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey pollinose on postpronotum and notopleuron. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal short and fine, closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. 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 short and fine median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Short. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by
Xue et al. (2012)
.