Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Author Couri, Márcia courimarcia@gmail. Author Pont, Adrian Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom. pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com text Zoologia 2020 e 46879 2020-08-28 37 1 57 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879 journal article 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879 1984-4689 13175972 6995FEC3-00D4-48C4-97D9-93FB9435B912 Limnophora simulans Stein, 1913 Paralectotypes . 2 males , 2 females . Lectotype in BMNH , designated by Emden (1959: 191) . Ethiopia and South Africa . Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.0– 4.5 mm (male), 4.5–5.0 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. Fronto-orbital plate, and parafacial brown. Gena grey dusted. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with an Anthomyia - pattern, dark postsutural band not connected to the dark scutellar band. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal fine and closer to the posterior seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters light brown. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. 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 reduced. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare. Remarks. This species can be identified with the key by Emden (1951) . The male terminalia were illustrated by Emden (1951 , fig 23 a–f) and the male habitus by Couri and Pont (2017 , fig. 7). See also Couri and Pont (2017) for diagnosis and notes.