Spilogona magnipunctata ( Malloch, 1919 )

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 : 38

Spilogona magnipunctata ( Malloch, 1919)

Syntypes. 2 males of Limnophora fumosa Stein, 1920b , junior synonym of S. magnipunctata . U.S.A.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.2 mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena brown. Ocellar triangle brown, short. Ocellar setae long. Eye with very sparse hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, a little shiny; light brown on postpronotum and notopleuron. Acrostichals developed, in 2 rows presuturally. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae; without anteroventral and posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the keys to Spilogona by Huckett (1932, as subgenus of Limnophora ) and by Huckett (1965).