Limnophora integra Stein, 1911

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 : 10

Limnophora integra Stein, 1911

Figs 49–52

Paralectotype. Male. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 475). Bolivia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6 mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena dark grey pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with 3 broad dark brown vittae, the median one reaching scutellar suture and the lateral ones reaching the fourth pair of dorsocentral setae; scutellum dark brown, grey pollinose on margins. Dorsocentrals 2+4, the 2 two anterior postsutural pairs very fine and short. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal long, 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 median posterior setae. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species has the scutum with characteristic vittae and can be identified with the key by Stein (1911).