Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B159E02-6439-5709-6AB1-AD257FA645B9 |
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Felipe |
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Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy |
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Genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL View at ENA
Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 517 View in CoL . Type-species: Limnophora palustris Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 View in CoL [= Anthomyia maculosa Meigen, 1826 ], des. Coquillett (1910: 561).
Diagnosis. Eye usually bare; prestomal teeth developed; prealar seta absent; lower proepimeral seta upcurved; prosternum with lateral setulae; postsutural dorsocentral setae 3 or 4; vein M slightly curved forwards just before apex; wing with setulae at the base of vein R 4+5 on dorsal and ventral surfaces; sternite 1 bare; female ovipositor with segment 8 directed upwards and with small spicules; hypoproct elongated and with spinules.
Comments. Two species have been recorded from Vanuatu, L. efatensis Shinonaga and L. mesolissa Bezzi , the former being endemic and recently described by Shinonaga (2005) who added 87 species to the 32 previously known to occur in the Australasian and Oceanian Regions.
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Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy
| Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe 2010 |
Limnophora
| Coquillett, D. W. 1910: 561 |
| Robineau-Desvoidy, A. J. B. 1830: 517 |