Austrolimnophila (Austrolimnophila) Alexander, 1920a

Podenas, Sigitas, Park, Sun-Jae, Byun, Hye-Woo, Kim, A-Young, Klein, Terry A. & Aukštikalnienė, Heung-Chul Kim and Rasa, 2020, New data on Limoniinae and Limnophilinae crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) of Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (4), pp. 492-531 : 503

Austrolimnophila (Austrolimnophila) Alexander, 1920a

Limnophila (Austrolimnophila) Alexander, 1920a: 4 .

Austrolimnophila (Austrolimnophila) Ishida, 1959: 2 ; Savchenko, Krivolutskaya, 1976: 55; Savchenko, 1986: 229; 1989: 66.

Type species: Limnophila eutaeniata Bigot, 1888 ( South America ) (original designation) .

Adult.

Medium-sized crane flies with body length 6.5-11.1 mm and wing length 7.5-10.5 mm. Body coloration yellowish brown, light brown or brown.

Head: Antenna with 14-segmented flagellum, longer in male, reaching somewhat beyond wing base at most, if bent backwards. Scape approximately twice as long as first flagellomere.

Thorax: Wing patternless or with abundant small spots [e.g., A. (A.) accola Alexander, 1961 from Indonesia or A. (A.) agathicola Alexander, 1952 from New Zealand], stigma indistinct or missing. Radial sector comparatively short, vein R 2 + 3 few times as long as R 2, cell r 3 with short stem, cell r 3 few times longer than vein R 2 + 3 + 4, cross-vein r-m distinct, well developed. Anal angle long and narrow.

Abdomen: Male terminalia: ninth tergite wider than longer, posterior margin with two small lobes and wide but shallow median incision between them, but without lateral lobes. Gonocoxite without large ventro-mesal lobe. Outer gonostylus slightly arched. Two pairs of small elongate semi-membranous plate-shaped parameres.

Subgenus includes 175 described species and has worldwide distribution ( Oosterbroek, 2020).

Larva and pupa as described for the genus.