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
6995FEC3-00D4-48C4-97D9-93FB9435B912
Spilogona narina
(
Walker, 1849
)
Holotype
. Male of
Limnophora nigrifrons
Stein, 1920b
, junior synonym of
S. narina
.
U.S.A.
Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic. Frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial, gena, antenna, arista and palpus uniformly dark brown. Ocellar triangle short. Ocellar setae long. Eye without hairs.Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura uniformly shiny dark brown. Acrostichals fine, in irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum withoutinterspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters smoky brown. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia with 1 posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae; 2 anteroventrals in apical third; 1 posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.
Remarks. The species can be recognized by the dark brown head and can be identified with the keys to
Spilogona
by
Huckett (1932
, as subgenus of
Limnophora
) and by
Huckett (1965)
.