Limnophora stragula ( Séguy, 1950: 280 ), Seguy, 1950

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 530-531

Limnophora stragula ( Séguy, 1950: 280) .

( Figs 108–111 )

Holotype male seen (in MNHNP); holotype male of Limnophora leptopus Emden 1951: 316 (junior synonym of L. stragula ) seen (BMNH); mid and hind legs missing.

Diagnosis. Medium sized species (5.0 mm); general colour brown with grey pollinosity, scutum brown, a little shining; postpronotum, notopleuron, area before scutellum, base of scutellum and all pleura grey pollinose; frons brown; fronto-orbital plate, face and parafacial grey pollinose in certain lights; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere yellow; legs brown, coxae with grey pollinosity; frons of male narrower than in female; 2 pairs of orbital setae, directed backwards and outwards; frontal triangle long, reaching lunule; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 4 irregular rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae and many setulae on disc; lower katepisternal absent; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; first fore tarsomere long in male; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 setulose; sternite 5 as in Fig. 108 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 109–110 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 111 . Notes. One male from Madagascar 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.