Spilogona hirticeps ( Stein, 1911 )

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 hirticeps ( Stein, 1911)

Fig. 246

Paralectotypes. 2 males, 2 females. Lectotype in SMT, by designation of ( Pont 2001: 472). Peru .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown, silver shiny from certain angles. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae long.Eye with many hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, very 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 uniformly dark brown. Acrostichals not distinct before suture. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere dark brown. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia with a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; 1–2 anterodorsals; without anteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; 3 anteroventrals on apical half; 3 posterodorsals. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown along costal vein. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be easily recognized by the haired eyes and can be identified with the key by Stein (1911, as Limnophora hirticeps ). Aedeagus as in Fig. 246.