Spilogona atricans ( Pandellé, 1899 )

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 : 35

Spilogona atricans ( Pandellé, 1899)

Syntypes. 3 males, 2 females of Limnophora grandis Stein, 1914 , junior synonym of S. atricans . Italy, France and Germany .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7–8 mm (male, female). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena silver shiny from certain angles. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae long. Eye without hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura brown. Acrostichals developed, in 3–4 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum with 1–3 interspatial setae. Haltere brownish. Calypters brown. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind tibia with 3–4 anterodorsal setae; 1 submedian anteroventral; 2 very short posterodorsals. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. This species can be recognized by the rather long acrostichal setulae and can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959), who also illustrated the male terminalia (Hennig 1959, plate 13 fig. 277, plate 16 fig. 316).