Spilogona brunneisquama ( Zetterstedt, 1845 )

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 : 36

Spilogona brunneisquama ( Zetterstedt, 1845)

Syntypes. 3 males of Limnophora armipes Stein 1916 , junior synonym of S. brunneisquama . Czech Republic and Sweden.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 6.0–7.0mm (male). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena silver shiny under certain lights. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae very short. Eye without hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about 1.5 the width of postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum dark brown. Postpronotum and notopleuron dark grey dusted. Acrostichals in 4 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters deep yellow. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; 2 anteroventrals and 3 anterodorsals. Hind tibia with 3–5 anterodorsal setae; 2–3 anteroventrals; 2–3 posterodorsals. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Smoky brown. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who also illustrated the male terminalia (Hennig 1959, plate 12 fig. 251, plate 14 fig. 296).