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
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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
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Limnophora mediterranea
Pont, 2012
Paratype
. Male.
Armenia
.
Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons about one-third of head-width, brown. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with 3 brown vittae, the lateral ones reaching the third pair of dorsocentral setae; the median one enlarged behind suture as far as level of third dorsocentral seta; scutellum with a brown spot at the base of each subbasal scutellar seta. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal seta absent. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae.Mid tibia with 2 median posteri- or setae. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. As stated in
Pont et al. (2012)
, the species belongs to the
triangula
-group of
Limnophora
and is most similar to
Limnophora triangula
(
Fallén, 1825a
)
, sharing 2 pairs of reclinate orbital setae, 3 pairs of postsutural dorsocentral setae and a bare sternite 1.
Pont et al. (2012)
also gave a key to separate both species and illustrations of themale habitus and terminalia (
Pont et al. 2012
, figs 1–3, 5).