Limnia unguicornis is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic .[1]
The eyes have four purple longitudinal stripes, two medial and twomarginal.The head is rufous with brown spots on each side: white face. The third segment of the antennae is blackish at apex the remainder brownish red.The arista is white. The brown ocellar plate is extended to the anterior margin in a depressed band.The thorax is rufous-brown with two grey mesonotal bands. The prothoracic bristles are ciliform. Rufous legs. The wings membrane is studded with numerous pale spots separated by a brown network.[2] [3] For terms see Morphology of Diptera. Limnia unguicornis is carnivorous (occasionally coprophagous).Mature larvae have been recorded feeding on Succinea putris.[4]