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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Syllimnophora zebrina
(
Bigot, 1885
)
Figs 185–188
Paralectotype
.
1 male
of
Limnophora auriflua
Stein, 1911
, junior synonym of
S. zebrina
.
Lectotype
in SMT, designated by
Pont (2001: 464)
.
Chile
.
Diagnosis. Length of body.
6.5 mm
(male). Head. Male frons about one-fourth of head-width, brown. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, face and gena brown, silver pruinose from certain angles. Ocellar triangle grey pruinose, reaching lunule. Ocellar setae not differentiated from the many other setae on ocellar triangle. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, bare. Palpus dark brown. Oral margin projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, silver pruinose, with 3 brown vittae, all broad and reaching tip of scutellum. Postpronotum and notopleuron silver pruinose. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 3 posterior setae. Hind femur with an anteroventral row of setae on apical half and 4–5 ventral setae on basal half. Hind tibia with 3 anterodorsal setae on middle third; 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown at base. Costal spine indistinct. M slightly curved forward close to apex. Abdomen. Dark brown; tergites 3 and 4 with a median and lateral silver spots; tergite 5 with lateral golden pruinose spots.
Remarks. The species can be recognized by the yellow haltere; darkened wing; and the golden pruinose lateral spots on tergite 5. It can be identified with the keys by
Stein (1911
, as
Limnophora auriflua
) and by
Malloch (1934
, as
Syllimnophora auriflua
).