Limnophora perfida Stein, 1913

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 : 12

Limnophora perfida Stein, 1913

Figs 73–76

Syntypes. 2 males, 1 female. Tanzania .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0–7.0 mm (male, female). Head. Eyes of male separated by a distance similar to the width of the ocellar triangle. Female with frons broad, about one-third of head-width.Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pruinose from certain angles. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Long and fine setae along oral margin. Thorax. Scutum brown, with grey dusted areas before scutellar suture and an area around the second presutural dorsocentral setae. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted.Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal more or less equidistant from the anterior and posterior setae. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae.Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal.Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. Sternite 5 and the terminalia were illustrated by Couri and Pont (2017, figs 77–80). This species can be identified with the key by Emden (1951).