Limnophora apicalis Zielke, 1970a : 73

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 apicalis Zielke, 1970a: 73 .

( Figs 1, 17–20)

Holotype male in BMNH; in good condition, abdomen a little damaged.

Diagnosis. ( Fig. 1) Scutum dark brown, postpronotum and notopleuron bluish-grey dusted; legs bluish-grey dusted; 1 reclinate orbital seta, curved outwards and backwards; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; sternite 5 ( Fig. 17).

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 18–19. Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 20.

Notes. This runs to L. praeapicalis Emden (couplet 5 of Emden 1951), and differs by the subshining scutum, with 2 pale brown paramedian vittae running inside the dorsocentral lines, from the neck to the second postsutural dorsocentral seta; and postpronotal lobe, notopleuron and postalar area with silvery pruinose patches.

Note. One male paratype dissected and illustrated.