Limnophora flavitarsis 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 : 9

Limnophora flavitarsis Stein in Becker, 1908

Syntypes. 1 male, 2 females. Canary Islands .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.8 mm (male, female). Head. Male frons broad, about one-fourth of head-width at vertex, brown. 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 separated dark brown spots; a postsutural dark brown transverse band reaching the fourth pair of dosocentral setae; scutellum dark brown. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal absent. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Male fore tarsus yellow, the last two tarsomeres white-yellow ventrally. Fore tibia with a row of long posteroventral setae on apical half; 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 not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The male can be easily recognized by the yellow fore tarsus with the 2 last tarsomeres white-yellow ventrally and by the long posteroventral setae on apical half of fore tbia. It can be easily identified in the key by Hennig (1959). See also Couri and Pont (2017) for diagnosis and notes.