Limnophora obliquesignata ( Emden, 1951: 452 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 519

Limnophora obliquesignata ( Emden, 1951: 452) .

( Figs 3 , 57–60 )

Holotype male seen; in good condition.

Diagnosis. ( Fig. 3 ). Scutum brown dusted; postpronotum, notopleuron, pleura and legs pale bluish-grey dusted; frons of male about one-fifth of head-width; postsutural dorsocentrals 4; mid femur with 2 preapical setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; lower katepisternal seta about twice as distant from anterior as from posterior seta; costal spine indistinct; sternite 5 as in Fig. 57 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 58–59 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 60 .

Notes. Originally described in Spilogona . One male paratype was dissected and is illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Dorsal habitus of Limnophora species: 1. Limnophora apicalis Zielke. 2. Limnophora majuscula Emden. 3. Limnophora obliquesignata (Emden). 4. Limnophora ochribasis Emden.

FIGURES 57 – 72. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 57 – 60. Limnophora Limnophora obliquesignata (Emden). 61 – 64. Limnophora obsignata (Rondani), sternite 5. 65 – 68. Limnophora ochribasis Emden. 69 – 72. Limnophora paneliusi Emden.