Spilogona limnophorina ( Stein, 1898 )

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 : 38

Spilogona limnophorina ( Stein, 1898)

Syntype. Male of Limnophora rufitibia Stein, 1920b , junior synonym of S. limnophorina . U.S.A.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose. Ocellar triangle brown, very short. Ocellar setae short. Eye without hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about 1.5 times the width of postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey pollinose, with a faint median brown vitta. Scutellum with preapical setulae on upper border of declivities ( Huckett 1965, fig. 25). Presutural acrostichals in 2 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae, femora and tarsi brown; tips of femora and tibiae yellow. Fore tibia with a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae; 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the keys by Huckett (1932), as Limnophora (Spilogona) rufitibia , and by Huckett (1965), as S. limnophorina .