Limnophora antennalis Couri & Pont, 2014 : 312

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 504

Limnophora antennalis Couri & Pont, 2014: 312 .

Holotype male in BMSA. Series of paratype males and females seen during this study.

Diagnosis. Two pairs of reclinate oribital setae; acrostichal setulae in two rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; postpedicel very long, reaching mouth-margin; lower katepisternal seta about twice as distant from the anterior as from the posterior one; mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae.

Notes. This runs in Emden’s (1951) key to couplet 5 and can be differentiated from L. praeapicalis by the unusually long upper posterior katepisternal and inner postalar setae combined with a virtually bare arista. Male and female terminalia illustrated by Couri & Pont (2014: Figs 26–31 ).

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.