Limnophora translucida Stein, 1913 : 517

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 533

Limnophora translucida Stein, 1913: 517 .

( Figs 8 , 112–115 )

Syntypes male and female seen in BMNH ( Pont and Werner 2006: 104–105; Pont 2013: 113); all in good condition.

Diagnosis. ( Fig. 8 ) Presutural spots separated posteriorly or wholly fused, sometimes narrowly connected with the presutural band on median line, but not extending on to postpronotum as in L. flavibasis ; postsutural dorsocentrals 4; mid femur with 2 preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; costal spine not distinct; basal abdominal segments yellow; sternite 5 much longer than wide ( Fig. 112 ).

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 113-114 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 115 .

Notes. A long series of males and females in the BMNH. One male dissected and illustrated. The morphology of the male terminalia is identical with that of L. terrestris Paterson, 1955 (paratype male seen and one male dissected), and the synonymy of these two species is proposed herein, with L. terrestris being ranked as a junior synonym of L. translucida (syn. nov.).

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 8. Dorsal habitus of Limnophora species: 5. Limnophora parallelifrons Emden. 6. Limnophora perfidodes Emden. 7. Limnophora simulans Stein. 8. Limnophora translucida Stein.

FIGURES 104 – 119. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 104 – 107. Limnophora spinifera Stein. 108 – 111. Limnophora stragula (Séguy). 112 – 115. Limnophora translucida Stein. 116 – 119. Limnophora trigemina Stein.