Limnophora pallitarsis Stein, 1903

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 : 12

Limnophora pallitarsis Stein, 1903

Figs 69–72

Holotype. Male. Egypt.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 3.5 mm (male). Head. Male dichoptic, frons about one-third of head-width. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena uniformly silvery-white pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel almost reaching oral margin, its tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum grey pollinose. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the posteri- or seta. Haltere yellow, knob brown. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Fore tarsomere 1 and posterior half of tarsomere 2 yellow. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose.

Remarks. The species is easily recognized by the silvery-white pruinose head, the partially yellow fore tarsomeres, and setulose sternite 1, and can be easily identified in the key by Hennig (1959).