Spilogona nobilis ( 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 : 38-40

Spilogona nobilis ( Stein, 1898)

Syntypes. 2 males. U.S.A.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.3 mm (male). Head. Male frons intermediate, about one-fourth of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena brown, silver pollinose from certain angles. Ocellar triangle brown, very short. Ocellar setae very short. 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 uniformly shiny dark brown. Acrostichals fine, in irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 3 anterodorsal setae; 2 anteroventrals on apical third; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the keys to Spilogona by Huckett (1932, as subgenus of Limnophora ) and by Huckett (1965).