Limnophora marginata Stein, 1904

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 marginata Stein, 1904

Figs 53–56

Lectotype. Male. Paralectotypes. 2 males, 2 females. Lectotype designated by Fogaça and Carvalho (2015: 211). Colombia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.0 mm (male), 6.0 mm (female). Head. Male eye margins almost touching in middle line. Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena brown-grey dusted. Gena produced. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum dark brown; with 2 lateral grey dusted spots before scutellar suture. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Scutellum dark brown. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal 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 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown, darker on costal margin. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Stein (1904). The male terminalia and female ovipositor illustrated by Lopes and Couri (1987, figs 1–5) and the male also by Fogaça and Carvalho (2015, figs 1–3). In the keys by Patittucci et al. (2013) and Fogaça and Carvalho (2015).