Austrolimnophila (Archilimnophila) Alexander, 1934b

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 : 500

Austrolimnophila (Archilimnophila) Alexander, 1934b

Archilimnophila Alexander, 1934b: 47 .

Austrolimnophila (Archilimnophila) Ishida, 1959: 2 ; Savchenko, Krivolutskaya, 1976: 55; Savchenko, 1986: 231.

Type species: Limnophila unica Osten Sacken, 1869 (Holarctic) (original designation).

Adult.

Medium-sized crane flies with body length 8.0-11.0 mm and wing length 8.2-10.5 mm. Body coloration dark brown.

Head: Antenna with 14-segmented flagellum, usually longer in male, reaching wing base or even beyond base of abdomen, if bent backwards. Basal flagellomere twice as long as scape.

Thorax: Wing patternless or with dark spots surrounding cross-veins, stigma distinct, dark brown. Vein R 2 far beyond branching point of R 2 + 3 and R 4, cell r 3 with long stem, vein R 2 + 3 + 4 approximately as long as cell r 3, cross-vein r-m distinct, well developed. Anal angle widely rounded.

Abdomen: Male terminalia: ninth tergite wider than longer, posterior margin with two lobes, sometimes also with tooth-shaped lateral lobe. Gonocoxite with large ventro-mesal lobe, often distinctly wider at base, narrow- er towards apex. Outer gonostylus with large tooth or finger-shaped apical lobe. Two pairs of large blackened spine-shaped parameres. Aedeagus short and wide.

Subgenus with 6 described species has Holarctic distribution ( Oosterbroek, 2020).

Larva and pupa. Undescribed.