Spilogona anthrax ( Bigot, 1885 )

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 : 35

Spilogona anthrax ( Bigot, 1885)

Syntypes. 2 males of Limnophora squamosa Stein, 1920b , junior synonym of S. anthrax . U.S.A.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0 mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena brown. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae very short. Eye without hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about 1.5 times the width of postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura uniformly brown. Acrostichals developed, in 2–3 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere brown. Calypters brown, with darker margins. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind tibia with 3–4 anterodorsal setae; 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.