Limnophora marginipennis 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 : 10

Limnophora marginipennis Stein, 1911

Figs 57–60

Syntype. Female (?, see Pont and Werner 2006). Peru.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 8.0 mm (female). Head. Frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena brown-grey dusted. Gena produced. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Arista short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum dark brown; with 2 lateral grey dusted spots before scutellar suture. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Scutellum dark brown. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal absent. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. 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 reduced. Wing. Smoky brown, darker on costal margin. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare. Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Stein (1911). The male terminalia and female ovipositor were illustrated by Lopes and Couri (1987, figs 6–11).