Limnophora mallochiana Emden, 1951 :418

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 515

Limnophora mallochiana Emden, 1951:418 .

Holotype male seen; mid left leg glued to the celluloid mount pinned with the specimen, abdomen damaged and removed after tergite 4.

Diagnosis. Body length 4.5–5.0 mm; general colour brown; scutum with grey pollinose areas at the insertions of posterior presutural dorsocentral, posterior postsutural dorsocentral and apical scutellar setae; postpronotum and notopleuron grey pollinose; frons brown; face and parafacial silver pollinose; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere yellow; legs brown; male holoptic; frontal triangle short; arista plumose; postsutural dorsocentrals 3, all long; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae and with numerous setulae on disc; lower katepisternal inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; wing a little infuscated, costal spine absent; 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.

Notes. Male terminalia dissected and illustrated in the original description ( Emden 1951: 419, Fig. 29 ).

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 40. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 25 – 28. Limnophora gilvifrons (Emden). 29 – 32. Limnophora kinangopana Emden. 33 – 36. Limnophora latilamellata Malloch. 37 – 40. Limnophora longiseta Emden.