Spilogona varsaviensis (Schnabl, 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 : 43

Spilogona varsaviensis (Schnabl, 1911)

Figs 157–160

Syntypes. 2 males, 3 females of Limnophora glauca Stein, 1916 , junior synonym of S. varsaviensis . Poland .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.5–5.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male holoptic. Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena, silver shiny. Ocellar triangle short. Ocellar setae long. Eye with very sparse hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about 1.5 the width of postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura bluish-grey dusted. Presutural acrostichals in 2 rows. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae, without anterodorsal and posteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; 1–2 anteroventrals; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Bluish-grey dusted, tergites 1+2–4 with lateral brown spots; tergite 5 with a faint median brown vitta. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified in the key by Hennig (1959) who gave illustrations of the male terminalia (Hennig 1959, plate 10 fig. 195, plate 18 fig. 359).