Limnophora alacris Stein, 1911

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 : 4

Limnophora alacris Stein, 1911

Paralectotypes. 2 males. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont (2001: 462). Bolivia .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0 mm (male). Head. Margins of male frons almost touching just below ocellar triangle. Antenna and arista brown, tip of postpedicel rounded. Palpus brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose, with 3 brown vittae, not fused behind suture. Dorsocentrals 1+4. Intraalars 0+1. Lower katepisternal present and closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae, 1 posterior and 1 posterodorsal. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral setae, both short; without a posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare. Terminalia not enlarged.

Remarks. This species can be identified with the key by Stein (1911).