Limnophora translucida Stein, 1913

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 : 15

Limnophora translucida Stein, 1913

Syntypes. 3 males, 1 female. Ethiopia and South Africa .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.5 mm (male, female). Head. Male holoptic, eye margins almost touching on the middle line. Female frons broad, about one-third of head-width, brown. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with 2 dark brown presutural spots, separated posteriorly or wholly fused, sometimes narrowly connected with the postsutural band on median line. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the posterior seta. 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 not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Basal abdominal segments yellow. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. This species can be identified with the key by Emden (1951). The male habitus and terminalia were illustrated by Couri and Pont (2017, figs 8, 112–115).