Neolimnophora maritima ( Röder, 1887 )

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 : 34

Neolimnophora maritima ( Röder, 1887)

Figs 125–128

Syntypes. 3 females of Limnophora candicans Villeneuve, 1906 , junior synonym of N. maritima . France.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0– 6.5 mm (male, female). Head. Eyes broadly separated in both sexes, about one-third of head-width in female and a little narrower in male. Fronto-orbital plate broad;frons dark brown, very narrow in male, as broad as diameter of anterior ocellus. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena uniformly white-silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle white-silver pruinose, short in male and broad and long in female, reaching lunule.Antenna and arista dark brown. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum uniformly pale grey dusted. Acrostichals in 3–4 rows before suture. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Lower katepisternal fine and very close to posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. 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. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Uniformly pale grey dusted, as scutum; in male with 2 very faint brown spots on tergites 3 and 4, from certain angles. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. Neolimnophora is a small genus with only 2 valid species, characterized by the antenna and arista very short; anepimeron bare; wing without setulae on radial vein; and prosternum setulose on margins. The genus and the species can be easily identified with the key by Hennig (1959) to genera and with his key to species of Neolimnophora . Terminalia of male and female illustrated by Hennig (1959, text-figs 51c, 68b, plate 10 fig. 192, plate 14 fig. 283). A long series of male and female in ZMHU collection.