Spilogona pseudodispar ( Frey, 1915 )

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 : 40

Spilogona pseudodispar ( Frey, 1915)

Syntypes. 3 males, 1 female of Limnophora subrostrata Stein, 1920b , junior synonym of S. pseudodispar . Canada .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.0– 5.5 mm (male, female). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial brown silver shiny from certain angles. Gena reddish brown. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae long. 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 projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura brown; postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted from certain angles. Acrostichals developed, in 3–4 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae; 2–3 anteroventrals; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. The species can be identified with the keys by Hennig (1959), by Huckett (1932, as Limnophora (Spilogona) subrostrata ) and by Huckett (1965). The male terminalia were illustrated by Hennig (1959, plate 12 fig. 230, plate 17, fig. 334) and by Huckett (1965, Figs 87, 158, 251).