Limnophora bipunctata (Stein, 1908)

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

Limnophora bipunctata (Stein in Becker, 1908)

Figs 230–233

Syntypes. 14 males, 9 females. Canary Islands .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.5–4.0 (male), 4.0– 4.5 mm (female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons brown, less than one-third of head-width. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. 1 pair of reclinate orbitals. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum largely brown, grey pollinose on two lateral areas above suture and above scutellum; seen from the front with two grey vittae presuturally. Postpronotum grey pollinose. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal short and fine, closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 1 preapical seta. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal and 1 submedian anteroventral, both short and fine; without a posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959). One male syntype from Orotava, with Becker’s number 46882.I, dissected and illustrated.