Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species Author Couri, Márcia Author Pont, Adrian text Zootaxa 2017 4216 6 501 536 journal article 37328 10.5281/zenodo.242395 92230737-0e1b-4d86-9c80-6562b0f1793e 1175-5326 242395 FF708257-E9A3-4C91-AD18-50326BB9676A Limnophora melanota Emden, 1951 : 420 . ( Figs 45–48 ) Holotype males of the three subspecies seen; in good condition; mid left leg missing in L. m. melanota . Diagnosis. Body length of male 4.5–6.2 mm ; male holoptic; general colour dark brown, postpronotum, notopleuron, a round area before scutellar suture (sometimes brown in female) and apex of scutellum grey pollinose; frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena dark brown; antenna, arista and palpus dark brown; haltere yellow; legs brown to light brown; frontal triangle short; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 4–5 irregular rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae; lower katepisternal inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; sternite 1 bare; abdomen with many long and fine hairs; sternite 5 as in Fig. 45 . Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 46–47 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 48 . Notes. The three subspecies ( L. m. melanota , L. m. abyssinica Emden, 1951 and L. m. fuscibasis Emden, 1951 ) are morphologically very similar and differ only in a few chromatic characters. One male paratype of L. m. melanota has been dissected and is illustrated. Only the holotype males of the two other subspecies ( L. m. abyssinica and L. m. fuscibasis ) were available and could not be dissected.