Limnophora ephippium Emden, 1951 : 391

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 510

Limnophora ephippium Emden, 1951: 391 .

Holotype female seen; scutum close to the pin and wings damaged.

Diagnosis. Small species (3.7 mm); general colour brown, postpronotum and notopleuron grey pollinose; all pleura with grey pollinosity; scutum shining brown; scutellum grey pollinose on disc; frons brown; face and parafacial grey pollinose; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere yellow; legs brown; 2 pairs of orbital setae, directed backwards and outwards; frontal triangle short; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 4 rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae; lower katepisternal absent; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 1 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare.

Notes. Known only from female holotype.