Spilogona deflorata ( Holmgren, 1872 )

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 : 37

Spilogona deflorata ( Holmgren, 1872)

Paralectotypes. 1 male, 1 female of Spilogona impar ( Stein, 1907) , junior synonym of S. deflorata . Lectotype designation by Pont (2004: 86). China .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0 mm (male), 4.5 mm (female). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown, parafacial silver shiny from certain angles. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae very short. Eye with sparse 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 dark brown. Presutural acrostichals in 4 rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron with a few setulae. Anepisternum with 1 interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; 2–3 anteroventrals and a row of short posterodorsals. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the keys by Hennig (1959, as Spilogona impar ) and Huckett (1965). The male terminalia have been illustrated by Hennig (1959, plate 12 fig. 235, plate 16 fig. 322, as Spilogona impar ) and Huckett (1965, figs 76, 182, 250).