Limnellia Malloch, 1925

Zhang, Junhua & Yang, Ding, 2009, Species of the genus Limnellia from China (Diptera: Ephydridae), Zootaxa 2308, pp. 58-64 : 58-59

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.191805
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3507222
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scientific name	Limnellia Malloch, 1925
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Limnellia Malloch, 1925 View in CoL View at ENA

Limnellia Malloch, 1925: 331 View in CoL (feminine). Type species: Limnellia maculipennis Malloch, 1925 View in CoL , original designation.– Andersson, 1971: 53 –59 [review of European species].– Mathis, 1978: 250 –293 [revision of Nearctic species]. Eustigoptera Cresson, 1930: 126 (feminine). Type species: Notiphila quadrata Fallén, 1813 View in CoL , original designation.– Cresson, 1935: 362 [synonymy].

Stictoscatella Collin, 1930: 113 (feminine). Type species: Notiphila quadrata Fallén, 1813 View in CoL , original designation.– Cresson, 1935: 362 [synonymy].

Stranditella Duda, 1942: 30 (as a subgenus of Lamproscatella ; feminine). Type species: Notiphila quadrata Fallén, 1813 , original designation.– Dahl, 1959: 126 [synonymy].

Diagnosis. The genus Limnellia is distinguished from other genera of the tribe Scatellini as follows: 1 pair of well-developed, lateroclinate fronto-orbital setae; gena narrow; thorax with vittate markings; 2 dorsocentral setae (0+2); wing mostly dark brown, with white markings; surstyli well developed as unfused processes at ventral margin of epandrium; phallapodeme reduced, Y-shaped ( Mathis, 1978).