Limnophora praeapicalis Emden, 1951 : 389

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 523

Limnophora praeapicalis Emden, 1951: 389 .

( Figs 85–88 )

Holotype male seen; fore and hind right legs missing, abdomen glued to the celluloid strip on which the specimen is pinned.

Diagnosis. Small species (2.8–3.1 mm); general colour brown with grey pollinosity; scutum with 3 brown vittae, the lateral ones broad; frons brown; fronto-orbital plate, face and parafacial grey pollinose; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere yellow; legs brown; male dichoptic; 2 orbital setae directed backwards and outwards; frontal triangle short; postpedicel very long, reaching oral margin; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 2 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 1 preapical posterior setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare; sternite 5 as in Fig. 85 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 86–87 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 88 .

Notes. One male paratype dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 73 – 88. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 73 – 76. Limnophora parallelifrons Emden. 77 – 80. Limnophora perfida Stein. 81 – 84. Limnophora perfidodes Emden. 85 – 88. Limnophora praeapicalis Emden.