Limnophora

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| image = Mosca en Bastavales, Brión, Galiza 090818 2.jpg

| image_caption = Limnophora tigrina

| taxon = Limnophora

| authority = Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830{{cite journal |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=André Jean Baptiste |title=Essai sur les myodaires |journal=Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique |date=1830 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=1–813 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up |accessdate=15 July 2018}}

| type_species = Limnophora palustris

| type_species_authority = Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830{{cite journal |author=D. W. Coquillett |year=1901 |title=Types of anthomyid genera |journal=Journal of the New York Entomological Society |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=134–146 |jstor=25002949}} {{Failed verification|date=October 2019}}

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Limnophora is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Muscidae. The flies are characterized by silver bands across their thorax. The tribe Limnophorini is named from the genus.

The genus includes the following species:{{ITIS|id=150730|taxon=Limnophora}}

• Limnophora corvina (Giglio-Tos, 1893)
• Limnophora discreta Stein, 1898
• Limnophora femorata (Malloch, 1913)
• Limnophora garrula (Giglio-Tos, 1893)
• Limnophora groenlandica Malloch, 1920
• Limnophora incrassata Malloch, 1919
• Limnophora invada Huckett, 1966
• Limnophora minuscula (Wulp, 1896)
• Limnophora narona Walker
• Limnophora nigripes (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)
• Limnophora normata Bigot, 1885
• Limnophora rotundata (Collin, 1930)
• Limnophora sinuata Collin, 1930
• Limnophora uniseta Stein, 1916