Limnophora beckeri (Stein, 1908)

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 : 6

Limnophora beckeri (Stein in Becker, 1908)

Figs 226–229

Syntypes. 6 males, 9 females. Canary Islands .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 2.5 mm (male), 3.0– 3.5 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons brown, less than one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. 2 pairs of reclinate orbital setae. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel large, its tip rounded; arista a little enlarged at base. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum brown in male, grey pollinose on notopleuron and postpronotum. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal seta short and fine, closer to the posterior one. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 1 preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral, both short and fine; without a posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.