Neolimnophora virgo ( Villeneuve, 1906 )

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 virgo ( Villeneuve, 1906)

Figs 129–132

Syntype. Female. France .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.5 mm (male, female). Very similar to the previous species, differing as follows: 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, with margins touching at middle so that the frons is indistinct; in female orbital margins almost touching the margins of the broad ocellar triangle. Thorax. Acrostichals in 2–3 rows before suture. Abdomen. Uniformly pale grey dusted like the scutum, in male and female.

Remarks. For comments on the genus, see under N. maritima . The species can be separated from N. maritima with the key by Hennig (1959).