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 aculeipes Stein, 1913 Syntype . Male. Ethiopia . Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5 mm (male). Head. Frons of male about one-fourth of head-width. Antenna and arista brown, tip of postpedicel pointed. Palpus brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose, with 3 brown vittae. Dorsocentrals 1+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal present and equidistant from the posterior and anterior setae. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae, 1 posterior and 1 posterodorsal. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 long median anterodorsal seta and a short submedian anteroventral; without a posterodorsal seta. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare. Sternite 5 with the lobes very enlarged. Remarks. This can be identified with the key by Emden (1951) . The male terminalia were illustrated by Couri and Pont (2017 , figs 9–12). The taxonomic status of the 3 subspecies recognised by Emden (1951) was recently changed (see Couri and Pont 2017 ).