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 quaterna ( Loew, 1852 ) Holotype . Female of Hylemyia quaterna Loew, 1852 . Mozambique . Syntypes . 19 males , 15 females of Limnophora notabilis Stein in Becker, 1903 , junior synonym of L. quaterna . Egypt . Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male frons intermediate; female frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Arista short-plumose. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum in male with an Anthomyia -pattern; female pale grey dusted with 2 faint brown vittae on the middle part of the dorsocentral row of setae. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal very fine and closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters light brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae in middle third. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare. Figures 61–80. Limnophora nitidithorax , syntype male: (61) dorsal habitus; (62) lateral habitus; (63) head in frontal view; (64) labels; Limnophora obscurisquama , syntype male: (65) dorsal habitus; (66) lateral habitus; (67) head in frontal view; (68) labels; Limnophora pallitarsis , holotype male: (69) dorsal habitus; (70) lateral habitus; (71) head in frontal view; (72) labels; Limnophora perfida , syntype male: (73) dorsal habitus; (74) lateral habitus; (75) head in frontal view; (76) labels; Limnophora prominens , paralectotype female: (77) dorsal habitus; (78) lateral habitus; (79) head in frontal view; (80) labels. Scale bars: 1.0 mm. Remarks. This species can be identified with the keys by Emden (1951) and Hennig (1959), both as L. notabilis , and with the key by Couri et al. (2006) to the Madagascan species of Limnophora . The male terminalia were illustrated by Emden (1951 , fig. 22).