Spilogona taeniata ( Stein, 1916 )

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 : 41-42

Spilogona taeniata ( Stein, 1916)

Holotype. Male. Georgia.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5 mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown, grey dusted from certain angles. Ocellar triangle short. Ocellar setae long. 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 2 rows. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Notopleuron with few setulae close to posterior seta. Anepisternum with 1 interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Dark brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta, 2 posterodorsals and 2 posteroventrals. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; 3 anteroventrals; 3 posterodorsals. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown, darker near base. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who illustrated the male terminalia Hennig (1959, plate 12 fig. 238, plate 18 fig. 355).