Limnophora breviventris Stein, 1915

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 breviventris Stein, 1915

Figs 33–36

Syntype. Male. Taiwan .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.8 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons brown, less than one-fourth 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 brown, grey pollinose on postpronotum and notopleuron. Dorsocentrals 2+4. 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 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Short. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Xue et al. (2012).