Spilogona scutulata (Schnabl, 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 : 41

Spilogona scutulata (Schnabl, 1911)

Figs 149–152

Syntypes. 3 males, 2 females of Limnophora signata Stein, 1914 , junior synonym of S. scutulata . Germany and Poland .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.0–4.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male frons intermediate. Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena silver shiny. Ocellar triangle 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 grey dusted with a broad postsutural median brown vitta; with few ground-setulae; scutellum brown. Acrostichals developed, in 2 regular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum withoutinterspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae and femora brown, grey dusted; tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; 1–2 anteroventrals; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine short, but distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who also gave illustrations of the male and female terminalia (Hennig 1959, text-fig. 58k, plate 10 fig. 204, plate 17 fig. 338).