Limnophora barbitarsis 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 : 6

Limnophora barbitarsis Stein, 1911

Figs 29–32

Paralectotype. Male. Lectotype inSMT, designated by Pont (2001: 465). Bolivia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 8.0 mm (male). Head. Margins of male frons almost touching just below ocellar triangle. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Eye with some sparse hairs. Antenna and arista dark brown, tip of postpedicel rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose, with 3 brown vittae before suture, joined in the middle as a transverse band after suture. Dorsocentrals 0+2. Intraalars 0+0. Lower katepisternum with only the posterior katepisternal seta developed. Haltere yellow. Calypters white, margins light brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Fore tarsus with a complete dorsal row of moderate setae. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae, 1 posterior and 1 posterodorsal. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral, both short and fine; without a posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus very reduced. Wing. Smoky brown, darker on anterior margin. Costal spine indistinct.

Remarks. A very distinct species; the male can be immediately recognized by the dorsocentral setae and the row of setae on fore tarsus.