Limnophora spinifera Stein, 1914 : 122

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 530

Limnophora spinifera Stein, 1914: 122 .

( Figs 104–107 )

Syntypes not seen and apparently lost ( Pont 2013: 110).

Diagnosis. Scutum uniformly dark brown; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; mid femur with 2 preapical setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior and 1 anterodorsal setae; lower katepisternal seta more or less equidistant from the other two; costal spine long and strong; sternite 5 as in Fig. 104 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 105–106 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 107 .

Notes. There is a long series from Kenya in the BMNH . The species can be easily recognized by the unusually long and strong costal spine. One male from Kenya dissected and illustrated.

Figures

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.