Macaronesian Muscidae (Diptera). II. The genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy with description of a new Canarian endemic species Author Michelsen, Verner text Zootaxa 2021 2021-04-08 4952 1 101 127 journal article 7374 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.1.6 364a2818-9890-4a57-91cd-d5dcf0f36c6f 1175-5326 4671806 5C640B7A-AA7A-435B-93C7-F9AC61A71A9B Limnophora exigua (Wiedemann) ( Figs 2A‒C , 12A, B ) FIGURE 2. Limnophora exigua (Wiedemann) . Male. Hypopygium, caudal ( A ) and lateral ( B ); sternites IV‒V ( C ). Same scale. Limnophora plumiseta Stein ; Emden 1958: 6 ( Cape Verde Is.). Limnophora exigua (Wiedemann) ; Pont 1980: 748 . Material examined. [ NHMD ]: Only extralimital specimens seen from the Philippines (Oriental), Kenya and Tanzania (Afrotropical). Diagnosis. Very small, wing length 2.7‒3.4mm . Male: See Couri & Pont (2020: 7 , figs 41‒43) for habitus im- ages. Arista short-plumose, longest branches 0.5‒0.75 times as wide as postpedicel. Frons broad, subshining black on large frontal triangle and upper part of fronto-orbital plates, silvery pruinose on lower part of fronto-orbital plates and on parafacial plates. Fronto-orbital plate with 2 orbital and 4 frontal setae. Frons and facial margin equally produced. Mesonotum grey pruinose with broad band behind the suture and all scutellum brownish black. Dorsocentral setae 4 unequal behind the suture; acrostichal field with setulae only, arranged in 4 presutural rows and up to 8 rows behind the suture. Mid femur with 2 subapical pd setae, without pv setae; mid tibia with 2 pd setae situated above and below middle. Hind femur with 2 av setae on subapical part; pv setae absent. Male tergite VI fused together with prehypopygeal sclerite. Sternite I bare. Sternite V and hypopygium as in Figs 2A‒C . Female: Very similar to the male. Ovipositor ( Figs 12A, B ) short and thick; tergite VIII with a pair of dorsal hind marginal setulae. See Table 1 for more ovipositor characters. Distribution. Cape Verde Islands: Santo Antão, São Vicente , São Nicolau, Santiago [São Tiago], Brava. Widely distributed in the Old World tropics.