Libnotes (Afrolimonia) Alexander, 1965

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Libnotes (Afrolimonia) Alexander, 1965

Limonia (Afrolimonia) Alexander, 1965: 48 .

Libnotes (Afrolimonia) Savchenko and Krivolutskaya,

1976: 120; Savchenko, 1983: 114, 1985: 41, 1989: 325.

Type species ­ Limonia rhizosema Speiser, 1909 (Africa).

Dark brownish gray, gray or nearly black crane flies. They are generally similar to crane flies belonging to nominative subgenus, differences are observed mainly in wing venation: vein Sc long, Sc 1 approximately at the level of Rs branching point, Sc 2 some distance before tip of Sc 1, usually close to the middle of Rs; R 1 longitudinal; R 2 well before R 1 tip; radial sector, if compared with that in other subgenera, long and nearly straight; distal branches of radial and medial veins just slightly arched, distal cells comparatively short; basal deflection of CuA 1 just slightly beyond branching point of M.

Larva of Afrolimonia is generally similar to larvae of other subgenera. Differences are found in hypostoma with which the larvae of Afrolimonia have five teeth, while other known larvae have more than five; sclerites on spiracular field have blurred edges, while sclerites of other larvae have sharp edges ( Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011).

A total of 42 species of the genus Afrolimonia is recorded, with 38 species from Afrotropical Region and only 2 species each from Palaearctic and Oriental Region ( Oosterbroek, 2015).