Limnophora simulans 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 : 14

Limnophora simulans Stein, 1913

Paralectotypes. 2 males, 2 females. Lectotype in BMNH, designated by Emden (1959: 191). Ethiopia and South Africa .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0– 4.5 mm (male), 4.5–5.0 mm (female).Head. Eyes of male separated by a distance similar to the width of the ocellar triangle. Female frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, and parafacial brown. Gena grey dusted. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with an Anthomyia - pattern, dark postsutural band not connected to the dark scutellar band. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters light brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. This species can be identified with the key by Emden (1951). The male terminalia were illustrated by Emden (1951, fig 23 a–f) and the male habitus by Couri and Pont (2017, fig. 7). See also Couri and Pont (2017) for diagnosis and notes.