Limnophora aculeipes Stein, 1913

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 4

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).