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 obscurisquama Stein, 1908 Figs 65–68 Syntypes . 3 males , 2 females . Canary Islands . Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5–6.5 mm (male), 6.5–7.0 mm (female). Head. Eyes of male separated by a distance similar to the width of the ocellar triangle. Female frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena brown; face dark grey dusted from certain angles. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Long and fine setae along oral margin. Thorax. Scutum brown, with 3 broad dark brown vittae. Postpronotum grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the long posterior seta. Katepisternum with short setulae on disc. Haltere yellow. Calypters brown, with margins dark brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.