Limnophora uniseta Stein, 1916

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 : 15

Limnophora uniseta Stein, 1916

Lectotype. Male. Paralectotype 1 female. Lectotype designated by Lyneborg (1965: 217). Sweden .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5 mm (male), 6.0 (female). Head. Eyes of male separated by a distance similar to the width of the ocellar triangle, a little approximated on middle line. Female frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena brown. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum dark brown. Postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the posterior seta. Katepisternum with many setae on disc. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 median posterior setae. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus reduced. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remark. This species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959).