Limnophora melanota Emden, 1951 : 420

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Limnophora melanota Emden, 1951: 420 .

( Figs 45–48 )

Holotype males of the three subspecies seen; in good condition; mid left leg missing in L. m. melanota .

Diagnosis. Body length of male 4.5–6.2 mm; male holoptic; general colour dark brown, postpronotum, notopleuron, a round area before scutellar suture (sometimes brown in female) and apex of scutellum grey pollinose; frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena dark brown; antenna, arista and palpus dark brown; haltere yellow; legs brown to light brown; frontal triangle short; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 4–5 irregular rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae; lower katepisternal inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; sternite 1 bare; abdomen with many long and fine hairs; sternite 5 as in Fig. 45 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 46–47 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 48 .

Notes. The three subspecies (L. m. melanota , L. m. abyssinica Emden, 1951 and L. m. fuscibasis Emden, 1951) are morphologically very similar and differ only in a few chromatic characters. One male paratype of L. m. melanota has been dissected and is illustrated. Only the holotype males of the two other subspecies (L. m. abyssinica and L. m. fuscibasis) were available and could not be dissected.

Figures

FIGURES 41 – 56. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 41 – 44. Limnophora majuscula Emden. 45 – 48. Limnophora melanota Emden. 49 – 52. Limnophora nuda sp. nov. 53 – 56. Limnophora numerosa sp. nov.