Spilogona kuntzei (Schnabl,1911)

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 : 37

Spilogona kuntzei (Schnabl,1911)

Syntypes. 2 males of Limnophora montana Stein, 1916 , junior synonym of S. kuntzei . Austria and Romania.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.0 mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena silver shiny. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae short. Eye with hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura pale grey dusted. Acrostichals in 2 rows before suture. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum withoutinterspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral. Hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae; 2 submedian anteroventrals; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine short, but distinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 with a very few setulae.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who illustrated the male terminalia Hennig (1959, plate 10 fig. 197, plate 16 fig. 321).