Limnophora excisa Emden, 1951 : 409

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 510

Limnophora excisa Emden, 1951: 409 .

Holotype female seen; right fore leg missing, thorax and abdomen damaged.

Diagnosis. Body length 3.6–5.0 mm; general colour brown with grey pollinosity; scutum with an “ Anthomyia - pattern”, with two large brown patches presuturally and postsuturally; scutellum with a transverse brown band near suture; postpronotum and notopleuron grey pollinose; frons brown; ocellar triangle grey pollinose; face and parafacial grey pollinose; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere yellow; legs brown; parafacial wide; 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 seta inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; 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 unknown.