Limnophora bipunctata (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

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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879

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scientific name

Limnophora bipunctata
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Limnophora bipunctata View in CoL (Stein in Becker, 1908)

Figs 230–233

Syntypes. 14 males, 9 females. Canary Islands .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.5–4.0 (male), 4.0– 4.5 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons brown, less than one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. 1 pair of reclinate orbitals. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum largely brown, grey pollinose on two lateral areas above suture and above scutellum; seen from the front with two grey vittae presuturally. Postpronotum grey pollinose. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal short and fine, closer to the posterior seta. 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 setulose.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959). One male syntype from Orotava, with Becker’s number 46882.I, dissected and illustrated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Limnophora

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