Limnophora obscurisquama 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 : 11

Limnophora obscurisquama Stein, 1908

Figs 65–68

Syntypes. 3 males, 2 females. Canary Islands .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5–6.5 mm (male), 6.5–7.0 mm (female). Head. Eyes of male separated by a distance similar to the width of the ocellar triangle. Female frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena brown; face dark grey dusted from certain angles. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Long and fine setae along oral margin. Thorax. Scutum brown, with 3 broad dark brown vittae. Postpronotum grey dusted. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the long posterior seta. Katepisternum with short setulae on disc. Haltere yellow. Calypters brown, with margins dark brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.