Limnophora elgonica Emden, 1951 : 412

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Limnophora elgonica Emden, 1951: 412 .

Male holotypes of the subspecies L. e. elgonica and L. e. aethiopica Emden, 1959 , seen; L. e. elgonica with head glued to the body; L. e. aethiopica Emden, 1959 with head missing.

Diagnosis. Body length 3.5–5.0 mm; general colour brown with grey pollinosity; scutum with an “ Anthomyia - pattern”: the two presutural brown spots fused anteriorly and separated posteriorly, the postsutural band large, continuing as far as scutellum as a median line (usually interrupted in female); scutellum with a large transverse brown band, grey pollinose only at apical fourth ( Fig. 24 in Emden 1951: 413); notopleuron and pleura grey pollinose; anepisternum brown on apical third; frons and fronto-orbital plate brown; face and parafacial silver pollinose; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere pale yellow; legs brown; male holoptic; frontal triangle short; arista plumose; postsutural dorsocentrals 3, all long; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae and with numerous setulae on disc; lower katepisternal seta inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; costal spine absent; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 preapical setae, one posterior and one posterodorsal; mid tibia with 2 posterior setae; sternite 1 bare.

Notes. Male terminalia of both subspecies are figured in Emden (1951: 414: Figs. 25 and 26 , the latter actually of L. e. aethiopica ) (see Emden 1959: 190–191).

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 24. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 9 – 12. Limnophora aculeipes Stein. 13 – 16. Limnophora alta sp. nov. 17 – 20. Limnophora apicalis Zielke. 21 – 24. Limnophora exigua (Wiedemann).

FIGURES 25 – 40. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli in lateral view; aedeagus in lateral view: 25 – 28. Limnophora gilvifrons (Emden). 29 – 32. Limnophora kinangopana Emden. 33 – 36. Limnophora latilamellata Malloch. 37 – 40. Limnophora longiseta Emden.