Limnophora rossi Zielke, 1974 : 41

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 527

Limnophora rossi Zielke, 1974: 41 .

Holotype female in CAS (not seen).

Diagnosis. Scutum with an “ Anthomyia -pattern”, with a continuous uninterrupted dark postsutural band; legs brown; postsutural dorsocentrals 4, the first two short; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 preapical setae, one posterior and one posterodorsal; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare.

Notes. Described from Madagascar, it runs to L. obsignata (couplet 23) in Emden’s (1951) key but differs by having a continuous uninterrupted dark postsutural band on scutum, from suture to third dorsocentral.