Camptotarsopoda pallipes ( Stein, 1913 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 2

Camptotarsopoda pallipes ( Stein, 1913)

Figs 9–12

Syntypes. 4 males, 1 female. Tanzania and South Africa .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0– 4.5 mm (male), 3.5 mm (female). Head. Male holoptic with only one pair of frontal setae, close to lunule. Female with frons broad, about one-third of head-width at vertex. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, face and gena dark brown. 2–3 pairs of frontal setae. 2 pairs of reclinate orbitals. Ocellar setae long. Eye enlarged; gena very narrow. Pedicel orange-yellow, postpedicel half brown half yellow, longitudinally. Postpedicel 2 times as long as wide, its tip rounded. Arista long; bare. Palpus filiform, yellow. Thorax. Scutum uniformly brown. Dorsocentrals 2+4. 2 proepisternals, the outer one very long. Scutellum with subbasal lateral and apical setae long. Katepisternals 1+1, with 2–3 setae close to the posterior one. Haltere yellow. Calypters smoky brown with margins dark brown. Lower calypter about twice as long as the upper one. Legs. Mostly yellowish; femora brownish; tarsomeres of fore leg uniformly brown. Fore femur with a complete row of anteroventral and anterodorsal setae. Fore tibia with 1 short dorsal preapical seta. Mid femur with 3–4 anterior setae on middle third and 2 posterior preapicals. Mid tibia of male with short strong apical ventral setae.Hind femur of male with anterodorsal and dorsal rows of setae, longer and more numerous on apical half. Hind tibia with 2–3 long anterodorsal and posterodorsal setae on apical third. Tarsomeres not enlarged. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Uniformly smoky brown. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Short, a little depressed dorsally. Grey pollinose with broad brown triangular lateral spots on tergites 1+2–4; tergite 5 with 2 brown round spots; tergites 1+2 and 3 largely yellowish. Terminalia not enlarged.

Remarks. This can be recognized among its congeners by the yellowish colour of the legs, antenna and palpus and the colour pattern of scutum. For comments on the genus, see the notes under C. albitarsis . One syntype male from Tanzania, Moschi, vii.1905 dissected and illustrated ( Figs 221–225).