Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Couri, Márcia Souto, de Carvalho, Claudio J. B. & Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Taxonomy of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Namibia: a key to genera, diagnoses, new records and description of a new species, African Invertebrates 53 (1), pp. 47-47 : 55

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https://doi.org/ 10.5733/afin.053.0103

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7917657

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scientific name

Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
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Genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 View in CoL View at ENA

Limnophora View in CoL is another species-rich Afrotropical muscid genus, with 76 described species (Pont 1980; Couri et al. 2006). See Couri et al. (2006) for generic diagnosis.Three species are recorded from Namibia: L. quaterna (Loew, 1852) View in CoL (Emden 1951: 409, “S.W. Africa”, as L. notabilis Stein View in CoL in Becker 1903; Emden 1956: 517, “S.W.Africa”, as L. notabilis View in CoL ; Lindner 1976: 79, Ongeama, as L. notabilis View in CoL ); L. simulans Stein, 1913 View in CoL ( Lindner 1976: 79, Ongeama); L. thomasseti Emden, 1951 View in CoL (Emden 1951: 423, Hoffnung).

None of the three recorded species was found among the studied material. Limnophora obsignata (Rondani, 1866) View in CoL is newly recorded for Namibia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Loc

Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Couri, Márcia Souto, de Carvalho, Claudio J. B. & Pont, Adrian C. 2012
2012
Loc

L. thomasseti

Emden 1951
1951
Loc

L. simulans

Stein 1913
1913
Loc

L. notabilis

Stein 1903
1903
Loc

L. notabilis

Stein 1903
1903
Loc

L. notabilis

Stein 1903
1903
Loc

Limnophora

Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
1830
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