Spilogona trichops ( 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 : 42

Spilogona trichops ( Stein, 1911)

Figs 153–156; 251–253

Paralectotypes. 1 male, 1 female. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 485). Bolivia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male holoptic, orbits almost touching in middle of frons. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown. Ocellar triangle short. Ocellar setae long. Eye enlarged, the upper ommatidia broader than the lower ones, with many 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 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Dark brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta; without anterodorsal and posteroventral. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal seta; without anteroventral and posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown, much darker along the costal vein. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species is easily recognized by the haired eyes and the dark brown wing margin along the costal vein. It can be identified with the key by Stein (1911, as Limnophora trichops ). Ovipositor as in Figs 251–253.