Spilogona obscuripennis ( Stein, 1916 )

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 : 40

Spilogona obscuripennis ( Stein, 1916)

Holotype. Male. Russia.

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 long. Eye with sparse hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura uniformly brown. Presutural acrostichals in 4 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere brown. Calypters brown. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 1 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind femur with posteroventral setae on basal half, and a complete row of anteroventrals. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae; 2–3 submedian anteroventrals; 2 posterodorsals. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine distinct, long. Abdomen. Uniformly dark brown. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who illustrated themale terminalia Hennig (1959, plate 12 fig. 249, plate 16 fig. 333). It is also in the keys to Spilogona by Huckett (1932 (as subgenus of Limnophora ) and 1965).