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 Spilogona parvimaculata ( Stein, 1920b ) Figs 145–148 Holotype . Male. U.S.A. Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.2 mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown, silver shiny from certain angles. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae long. Eye without hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura uniformly brown. Acrostichals developed, in 3 series presuturally. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters yellowish. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia with 1 posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Yellowish. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen.Pale grey dusted, with 2 well marked brown longitudinal spots on tergite 3, 2 faint spots on tergite 4, and a faint median stripe on tergite 5. Sternite 1 bare. Remarks. The species can be identified with the key to Spilogona by Huckett (1932 , as subgenus of Limnophora ).