Limnophora elgonica Emden, 1951

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 8

Limnophora elgonica Emden, 1951

Paratypes. 1 male, 2 females of ssp. aethiopica Emden, 1959 . Ethiopia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.8–4.2 mm (male), 5.0 mm (female). Head. Male frons intermediate. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with 2 presutural dark brown spots fused anteriorly and separated posteriorly, a postsutural dark brown transverse band continuing as far as scutellum as a median line (usually interrupted in male); scutellum with a broad transverse dark brown band, grey pollinose on apical half ( Emden 1951, fig. 24). Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal long, closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 median posterior setae. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus a little enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. L. elgonica can be identified with the key by Emden (1951). The male and female terminalia were figured by Emden (1951). See also Couri and Pont (2017) for diagnosis and notes.