Limnophora conica Stein, 1915

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 : 6-8

Limnophora conica Stein, 1915

Figs 37–40

Paralectotypes. 3 males, 1 female. Lectotype in SDEI, designated by Pont (1970: 83). Taiwan .

Diagnosis.Length of body. 5.0–5.2 (male), 5.0 mm (female). Head. Male holoptic. Frons in female about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. 2 pairs of reclinate orbitals in female. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Prescutum dark brown, grey pollinose laterally and on two lateral areas before suture; scutum with a broad transverse dark brown band before suture, reaching the last pair of dorsocentral setae; scutellum dark brown. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+1. Lower katepisternal long, closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae.Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Xue et al. (2012).