Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species
Author
Couri, Márcia
Author
Pont, Adrian
text
Zootaxa
2017
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6
501
536
journal article
37328
10.5281/zenodo.242395
92230737-0e1b-4d86-9c80-6562b0f1793e
1175-5326
242395
FF708257-E9A3-4C91-AD18-50326BB9676A
Limnophora spinifera
Stein, 1914
: 122
.
(
Figs 104–107
)
Syntypes not seen and apparently lost (
Pont 2013: 110
).
Diagnosis.
Scutum uniformly dark brown; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; mid femur with 2 preapical setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior and 1 anterodorsal setae; lower katepisternal seta more or less equidistant from the other two; costal spine long and strong; sternite 5 as in
Fig. 104
.
Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in
Figs 105–106
. Aedeagal complex as in
Fig. 107
.
Notes.
There is a long series from
Kenya
in the
BMNH
. The species can be easily recognized by the unusually long and strong costal spine. One male from Kenya dissected and illustrated.