Limnophora femoriseta Pont, Vikhrev & Werner, 2011

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 femoriseta Pont, Vikhrev & Werner, 2011

Figs 45–48

Paratype. Male. Armenia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0 mm. Head. Male frons broad, narrowing from vertex to lunule, brown. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum mostly dark brown, grey dusted along neck, on prostpronotum, notopleuron. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal very fine and closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs.Fore tibia without posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae; with a posteroventral row of setae in addition to the usual few setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal seta; without anteroventral and posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The male terminalia were illustrated in Pont et al. (2011, figs 11–12). Pont et al. (2011) gave a key to the three Armenian species of the Calliophrys -group of Limnophora which includes L. femoriseta .