Limnophora aurifacies Stein, 1911

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 : 4-6

Limnophora aurifacies Stein, 1911

Figs 25–28

Paralectotypes. 2 females. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 464). Bolivia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.2 mm (female). Head. Frons of female about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena golden pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown, tip of postpedicel rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose, with 3 brown vittae, the median one reaching tip of scutellum. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 0+2. Lower katepisternal short and fine, closer to the posterior seta. 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 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral setae, both short; without a posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct.

Remarks. Keyed by Stein (1911). The male and the male terminalia were described and illustrated by Couri and Lopes (1986, figs 1–6). Patittucci et al. (2013) keyed and recorded the species for the first time from Argentina (Buenos Aires).