Limnophora aculeipes Stein, 1913 : 521

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 503

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Limnophora aculeipes Stein, 1913 : 521
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Limnophora aculeipes Stein, 1913: 521 View in CoL .

( Figs 9–12 View FIGURES 9 – 24 )

The single surviving syntype (a male in ZMHU, see Pont and Werner 2006: 16; Pont 2013: 52) was not seen during the present study . A series of males and females is deposited in the BMNH .

Diagnosis. Postsutural dorsocentrals 3; anterior postsutural intralar present; fore tibia without a posterior median seta; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta and without anterodorsal seta; hind tibia without a posterodorsal seta; lower katepisternal seta more or less equidistant from the upper two; costal spine indistinct; sternite 5 ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9 – 24 ).

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 10–11 View FIGURES 9 – 24 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 12 View FIGURES 9 – 24 .

Notes. L. aculeipes has been considered until now to be represented by three subspecies ( Pont 1980): L. aculeipes aculeipes , L. aculeipes latilamellata Malloch, 1921 and L. aculeipes eurymetopa Emden, 1951 . Emden (1951) differentiated them mainly by the chaetotaxy of fore and hind tibiae. One male paratype of L. aculeipes eurymetopa and one male of each of the other two subspecies were dissected. The morphology of the terminalia of L. aculeipes latilamellata and L. aculeipes eurymetopa is identical, while that of L. aculeipes aculeipes is very different from the other two. We therefore consider L. aculeipes and L. latilamellata (stat. rev.) to be valid species, with L. aculeipes eurymetopa as a junior synonym of the latter (syn. nov.).

Emden, F. I. van. (1951) Muscidae: C - Scatophaginae, Anthomyiinae, Lispinae, Fanniinae and Phaoniinae. In: Ruwenzori Expedition 1934 - 35, vol. 2, British Museum (Natural History), London, 325 - 710.

Malloch, J. R. (1921) Exotic Muscaridae (Diptera). - I. Annals and Magazine of natural History, 9 (7), 161 - 173.

Pont, A. C. (1980) Family Muscidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.). Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 721 - 761

Pont, A. C. & Werner, D. (2006) The types of Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) in the Museum fur Naturkunde, Humboldt- Universitat zu Berlin, Germany. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe, 82, 3 - 139. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 200600001

Pont, A. C. (2013) The Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) described by Paul Stein (1852 - 1921). Zoosystematics and Evolution, 89, 31 - 166. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1002 / zoos. 201300004

Stein, P. (1913) Neue afrikanische Anthomyiden. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici, 11, 457 - 583.

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FIGURES 9 – 24. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 9 – 12. Limnophora aculeipes Stein. 13 – 16. Limnophora alta sp. nov. 17 – 20. Limnophora apicalis Zielke. 21 – 24. Limnophora exigua (Wiedemann).

ZMHU

Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universitaet

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Limnophora