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
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Limnophora elgonica
Emden, 1951
: 412
.
Male holotypes of the subspecies
L. e.
elgonica
and
L. e. aethiopica
Emden, 1959
, seen;
L. e.
elgonica
with head glued to the body;
L. e. aethiopica
Emden, 1959
with head missing.
Diagnosis.
Body length 3.5–5.0 mm; general colour brown with grey pollinosity; scutum with an “
Anthomyia
- pattern”: the two presutural brown spots fused anteriorly and separated posteriorly, the postsutural band large, continuing as far as scutellum as a median line (usually interrupted in female); scutellum with a large transverse brown band, grey pollinose only at apical fourth (
Fig.
24
in
Emden 1951
: 413); notopleuron and pleura grey pollinose; anepisternum brown on apical third; frons and fronto-orbital plate brown; face and parafacial silver pollinose; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere pale yellow; legs brown; male holoptic; frontal triangle short; arista plumose; postsutural dorsocentrals 3, all long; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae and with numerous setulae on disc; lower katepisternal seta inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; costal spine absent; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 preapical setae, one posterior and one posterodorsal; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare.
Notes.
Male terminalia of both subspecies are figured in
Emden (1951: 414:
Figs. 25 and 26
, the latter actually of
L. e. aethiopica
)
(see
Emden 1959
: 190–191).