Limnophora flavibasis Stein, 1906

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 : 9

Limnophora flavibasis Stein, 1906

Holotype. Male. Cameroon.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0 mm (male). Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with 2 presutural dark brown spots fused anteriorly and separated posteriorly, a postsutural dark brown transverse band reaching the fourth pair of dorsocentral setae; scutellum dark brown, grey pollinose only at extreme tip. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal short and fine, closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters smoky brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 median posterior setae. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. See also Couri and Pont (2017) for diagnosis and notes.