Limnophora spinata Stein, 1914 : 121

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 spinata Stein, 1914: 121 .

( Figs 100–103 )

Syntypes not seen and apparently lost ( Pont 2013: 109).

Diagnosis. Scutum dark brown; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; mid femur with 2 preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; costal spine present and long; sternite 5 as in Fig. 100 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 101–102 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 103 .

Notes. There is a long series of males and females from Kenya in the BMNH. One male dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 89 – 103. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view (not figured for L. quadristriata); epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 89 – 91. Limnophora quadristriata Emden. 92 – 95. Limnophora sinuosa sp. nov. 96 – 99. Limnophora somereni Emden. 100 – 103. Limnophora spinata Stein.