Limnophora thomasseti Emden, 1951 : 422

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 533

Limnophora thomasseti Emden, 1951: 422 .

Holotype male seen; in good condition.

Diagnosis. Body length, male: 3.7 mm; female: 4.5–5.0 mm; male holoptic; general colour dark brown; postpronotum, notopleuron, a round area before scutellar suture and apex of scutellum grey pollinose; frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena dark brown; antenna, arista and palpus dark brown; haltere yellow; legs brown; frontal triangle short; arista plumose; acrostichal setulae in 4–5 rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae; lower katepisternal inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 preapical posterior setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; sternite 1 bare.

Notes. Paratype male a little damaged and not dissected.