Limnophora melanota Emden, 1951 : 420

Limnophora melanota Emden, 1951: 420 View in CoL .

( Figs 45–48 View FIGURES 41 – 56 )

Holotype males of the three subspecies seen; in good condition; mid left leg missing in L. m. melanota .

Diagnosis. Body length of male 4.5–6.2 mm; male holoptic; general colour dark brown, postpronotum, notopleuron, a round area before scutellar suture (sometimes brown in female) and apex of scutellum grey pollinose; frons, fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena dark brown; antenna, arista and palpus dark brown; haltere yellow; legs brown to light brown; frontal triangle short; arista with short hairs; acrostichal setulae in 4–5 irregular rows; postsutural dorsocentrals 3; scutellum with long basal and apical pairs of setae; lower katepisternal inserted closer to the long posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia without a submedian seta; mid femur with 2 posterior preapical setae; mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; sternite 1 bare; abdomen with many long and fine hairs; sternite 5 as in Fig. 45 View FIGURES 41 – 56 .

Terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 46–47 View FIGURES 41 – 56 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 48 View FIGURES 41 – 56 .

Notes. The three subspecies ( L. m. melanota , L. m. abyssinica Emden, 1951 and L. m. fuscibasis Emden, 1951) are morphologically very similar and differ only in a few chromatic characters. One male paratype of L. m. melanota has been dissected and is illustrated. Only the holotype males of the two other subspecies ( L. m. abyssinica and L. m. fuscibasis) were available and could not be dissected.