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Species of
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Belongs to the species of
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leg.;
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,
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,
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leg.;
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leg.;
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; same data as for preceding;
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<collectingDate id="226E632A6545A41F9ED1AA49426CB135" box="[189,345,846,872]" pageId="13" pageNumber="255" value="1936-06-24">24 Jun. 1936</collectingDate>
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leg.;
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;
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leg.;
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<collectingDate id="226E632A6545A41F9DFDAA764706B1D1" box="[913,1075,881,908]" pageId="13" pageNumber="255" value="1935-08-22">22 Aug. 1935</collectingDate>
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;
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<collectingDate id="226E632A6545A41F9FADAA924108B1F3" box="[449,573,916,943]" pageId="13" pageNumber="255" value="1936-03">Mar. 1936</collectingDate>
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;
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Body length:
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). Eye bare; holoptic, eye contiguity for distance slightly longer than length of ocellar triangle, ommatidia equal in size; sometimes trace of maculae. Frons distinctly protruding, in lateral view equal to or slightly beyond facial tubercle; with medial protuberance, ground colour brown (
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) to almost black; largely shining, dark brown pollinosity in dorsal third; with medium long dispersed black pile, dorsally somewhat longer. Ocellar triangle with short black pile. Face ground colour brown, along gena slightly darker (
<typeStatus id="992F02A06545A41F9C6FACC14158B7BD" box="[515,621,1478,1504]" pageId="13" pageNumber="255" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
) to almost black; shining except ventral of antennae where slight greyish pollinosity; along dorsolateral margins with dispersed long pale orange pile, otherwise bare; facial tubercle distinctly pronounced. Antennal segments brown (
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) to black, postpedicel orange (
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) to brown; arista missing in
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, bare, dark orange in non-type material; postpedicel slightly longer than wide.
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). Scutum subshining black; rufous pollinosity; with short rufous pile, postalar callus with longer pile. Scutellum as scutum, anterior margin pile somewhat longer; marginated along posterior margin (
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). Pleura ground colour black, posterior anepisternum with dispersed long rufous pile, katepisternum more pale rufous pile, anterior anepimeron dorsally predominantly black, ventrally predominantly pale rufous; otherwise pleura bare. Non-type material pollinosity and pilosity sometimes darker golden brown.
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. All femora dark brown (
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) to dark brown pile; pro- and mesofemur posteriorly and metafemur anterodorsally with longer black pile. Metafemur (
<figureCitation id="DEAFA0876545A41F9F3FAECB4299B5BB" box="[339,428,1996,2022]" captionStart="Figs 2530" captionStartId="34.[189,242,1857,1883]" captionTargetBox="[202,1386,265,1819]" captionTargetId="figure-11@34.[202,1386,265,1819]" captionTargetPageId="34" captionText="Figs 2530. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Metaleg, anterior view.25. M. hirsuta Hull, 1941, holotype, ♀ (ANSP ENT 142915 (6591)). 26. M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941, holotype, ♂ (ANSP ENT 142916 (6592)). 27. M. aperta (Bezzi, 1912), ♀ (RBINS, Eala, 5 Oct. 1936, J. Ghesquière). 28. M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819), ♀ (NMSA DIP 175981). 29. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 30. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000037959)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914512" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914512/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="255">Fig. 27</figureCitation>
) thickened. Tibiae and tarsal segments orange-brown (
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) to dark brown;
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with short dense rufous (
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) to black pile; metatibia curved, along anterior and posterior margins with row of dense medium long pile.
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(
<figureCitation id="DEAFA0876546A41C9F63A8694253B3D5" box="[271,358,366,392]" captionStart="Figs 3739" captionStartId="36.[189,242,1901,1927]" captionTargetBox="[189,1377,265,1853]" captionTargetId="figure-12@36.[189,1399,265,1853]" captionTargetPageId="36" captionText="Figs 3739. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Right wing. 37. M. hirsuta Hull, 1941, holotype, ♀ (ANSP ENT 142915 (6591)). 38. M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941, holotype, ♂ (ANSP ENT 142916 (6592)). 39. M. aperta (Bezzi, 1912), holotype, ♂ (MCSNG)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914516" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914516/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Fig. 39</figureCitation>
). Largely dark black-brown coloured; in medial part, distally, along posterior margin less so, sometimes some central parts of cells also with less dark brown colouration; microtrichose, more densely so along anterior margin; in distal half with darker fascia from anterior to posterior margin. Stigmal cross-vein absent. Vein R
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sinuate, with short appendix.
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(
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). Mainly dark brown subshining, with brownish pollinosity,
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tergum 2 with pair of orange-red triangular shaped lateral maculae, and tergum 3 with pair of orange-red more square shaped lateral maculae; these absent in non-type material. Tergum 4 along anterior two-thirds with more conspicuous grey-brown pollinosity. All terga with short rufous pile (darker in non-type specimens), lateral margins longer pile, posterior margins with short black pile. Sterna black-brown to black, sterna 13 with very long dispersed pale yellow pile; sterna 45 with dispersed black pile.
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9E86AA0D4270B179" bold="true" box="[234,325,778,804]" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Female</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="462BBC026546A41C9ED1AA2A42A6B189" blockId="14.[189,1400,778,981]" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">As male except for the following character states. Head with eyes dichoptic. Frons subshining black to black-brown; in dorsal half with pale brown pollinosity; with short rufous pile. Legs, paler brown; predominantly rufous pile. Wing less dark brown, with more hyaline maculae. Abdomen, abdominal terga sometimes paler brown, with rufous maculae; subshining maculae sometimes more extensive and more pronounced.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9ED1AAFC4263B648" bold="true" box="[189,342,1019,1045]" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Distribution</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="3E83FC926546A41C9ED1AD2D420FB619" box="[189,314,1066,1092]" name="Cameroon" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Cameroon</collectingCountry>
, Democratic Republic
<collectingCountry id="3E83FC926546A41C9C2BAD2D41ADB619" box="[583,664,1066,1092]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Congo</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="3E83FC926546A41C9CC8AD2D41C3B619" box="[676,758,1066,1092]" name="Gabon" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Gabon</collectingCountry>
. Also reported from
<collectingCountry id="3E83FC926546A41C9D84AD2C4700B618" box="[1000,1077,1067,1093]" name="Kenya" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Kenya</collectingCountry>
(
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).
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9ED1AD6C4271B6D8" bold="true" box="[189,324,1131,1157]" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Comments</emphasis>
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This species was initially placed in
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9C31AD9D41DDB6E9" box="[605,744,1178,1204]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Protylocera</emphasis>
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, which is considered an unnecessary replacement name for
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9E84ADB9427AB685" box="[232,335,1214,1240]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Senaspis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see
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De Meyer
<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9C7EADB94178B68A" box="[530,589,1213,1239]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">et al.</emphasis>
2020b
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). It is unclear who transferred it to
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9A21ADBA479FB68A" box="[1101,1194,1213,1239]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Mallota</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but it is listed as such by
<bibRefCitation id="2205C1F36546A41C9F73ADE74162B6A6" author="Smith K. G. V. &amp; Vockeroth J. R." box="[287,599,1248,1275]" pageId="14" pageNumber="256" pagination="488 - 510" refId="ref21504" refString="Smith K. G. V. &amp; Vockeroth J. R. 1980. Family Syrphidae. In: Crosskey R. W. (ed.) Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region: 488 - 510. British Museum (Natural History), London. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 62053111 [accessed 9 Sep. 2024]." type="book chapter" year="1980">Smith &amp; Vockeroth (1980)</bibRefCitation>
. It shares some characteristics with species of
<taxonomicName id="8194C7816546A41C9A1DADE647EDB6A6" box="[1137,1240,1249,1275]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Senaspis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="256" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9A1DADE647EDB6A6" box="[1137,1240,1249,1275]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Senaspis</emphasis>
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like the wing pattern, similar to what is observed in e.g.,
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9CC4AC034061B743" box="[680,852,1284,1310]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">S. haemorrhoa</emphasis>
(Gerstaecker, 1871)
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, and the marginated apical margin of the scutellum. Some specimens also have slightly maculated eyes, although the maculae are hardly discernible. It differs mainly from species of
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<emphasis id="74E060106546A41C9D4DAC4D40BDB739" box="[801,904,1354,1380]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="256">Senaspis</emphasis>
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by the distinctly open wing cell r
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(closed and petiolate in
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, rarely shortly open). No recent material could be obtained in order to include it in the molecular analysis. We propose to leave it in the genus
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pending availability of additional material. In addition to the
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, there is a long series from D.R.
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some of which have a much darker appearance, but otherwise they appear to correspond with the
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. No DNA barcodes were obtained.
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