Limnophora capensis Paterson, 1955 : 142

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2017, Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 501-536 : 505

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scientific name	Limnophora capensis Paterson, 1955 : 142
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Limnophora capensis Paterson, 1955: 142 View in CoL .

Holotype male in NMSA. Paratype male seen in BMNH; in good condition.

Diagnosis. Presutural spots separated posteriorly or wholly fused, sometimes narrowly connected within the presutural band on a median line, but not extending on to postpronotal callosity (which differentiates this species from L. flavibasis Stein, 1906 ); postsutural dorsocentrals 4; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; costal spine not distinct; first abdominal segments yellow; sternite 5 with a dense patch of thick spines.

Notes. L. capensis , together with L. terrestris Paterson, 1955 , keys out to L. translucida Stein, 1913 , at couplet 25 of Emden’s (1951) key. Paterson (1955) gave a key to separate these three species. L. terrestris is herein proposed as a junior synonym of L. translucida (syn. nov.) (see note under L. translucida ).