Limnophora paneliusi Emden, 1958 : 11

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 521

Limnophora paneliusi Emden, 1958: 11 .

( Figs 69–72 )

Holotype male in ZMUH (not seen); 3 paratypes (one male and 2 females) in the BMNH.

Diagnosis. Postsutural dorsocentrals 4, the first 2 short; lower katepisternal weak, inserted closer to the long posterior one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 preapical setae, one posterior and one posterodorsal; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare; sternite 5 as in Fig. 69 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 70–71 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 72 .

Notes. This runs to couplet 23 and to L. obsignata in Emden’s (1951) key. It differs by the broader male frons (at middle 3–4 times the width of a fronto-orbital plate), 7–11 frontal setae extending from lunule to level of anterior ocellus, abdominal tergite 5 with a broad median spot or vitta, and aristal plumes as wide as postpedicel. One male paratype dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 57 – 72. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 57 – 60. Limnophora Limnophora obliquesignata (Emden). 61 – 64. Limnophora obsignata (Rondani), sternite 5. 65 – 68. Limnophora ochribasis Emden. 69 – 72. Limnophora paneliusi Emden.