Limnophora gilvifrons ( Emden, 1951: 448 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 512

Limnophora gilvifrons ( Emden, 1951: 448) .

( Figs 25–28 )

Holotype male seen; greasy and the colour pattern completely obscured, mid legs missing, posterior margin of both wings damaged.

Diagnosis. General colour pale grey dusted; ocellar triangle embossed with apex truncate ( Fig. 34 in Emden 1951: 448) and reaching lunule; postsutural dorscentrals 3; mid femur with two preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 5 ( Fig. 25 )

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 26–27 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 28 .

Notes. Described originally in Spilogona . One paratype female is in better condition than the holotype, and is pale grey dusted as in the description. Easily recognized by the very characteristic ocellar triangle. A series of males and females from South Africa is in the BMNH .

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.