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O. Box 94, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa. +jmidgley@nmsa.org.za + + + +Author + +Goergen, Georg +11B63B43-550B-46BE-B9BF-BC1F0A803FAA +International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Biodiversity Centre, 08 BP 0932 Tri Postal, Cotonou, Benin. +G.Goergen@cgiar.org + + + +Author + +Jordaens, Kurt +8E90942E-C18C-4E7D-8158-9990AD010470 +Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of Biology and JEMU, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium. +kurt.jordaens@africamuseum.be + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-10-29 + + +968 + + +60 +85 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2717/12495 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2717 +2118-9773 +14006214 +B0360A6E-1283-45FC-B973-E9CF21ABAEC8 + + + + + + +Afroxanthandrus comorosensis + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +2105F4F0-C786-41FD-A40C-A4EE6886063F + + + + + +Figs 1–2 +, +7 +, +13 +, +18–19 +, +24 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +Differs from other species of + +Afroxanthandrus + +in having a broad yellow fascia on tergite 4 (absent in + +A. congensis + +and + +A. longipilus + +, narrow in + +A. conopeum + +sp. nov. +) and from + +A. congensis + +and + +A. longipilus + +in the straight posterior margin of the yellow marking on tergite 2. Male genitalia small ( +0.5 mm +long), surstyli with a ventral projection in lateral view (genitalia large without ventral projection in + +A. conopeum + +and + +A. congensis + +). + + + + + +Etymology + + + +Named after the +Comoros +Archipelago from where the +type +was collected. + + + + + +Type material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +COMOROS +• +♂ +; +Nzwani +Island +[= +Anjouan +], +Koni-Djodjo +; + +30 Nov. 2010 + +; +M. Jocque +leg.; +RMCA +DNA 1024C07 +; +GenBank +: PP828581; +RMCA +, +RMCA +ENT 000056900 +. + + + + + + +Description + + + +MEASUREMENTS +. Body: +9.7 mm +; wing: +8.8 mm +. + + +Male + + +HEAD +( +Fig. 2 +). Dark brown to black, with medium sized facial tubercle and a medium sized antennal prominence. Face straight in profile; widest just above the tubercle, where approximately 40% of the maximum head width, with slightly curved sides, about as narrow just below antennae and just above the oral margin, approximately 38% of maximum head width; laterally with dense, yellowish gold pollinosity, completely obscuring the black ground colour, thinner pollinosity on the oral margin, gena and medial strip between the tubercle and antennal base, facial tubercle bare; with long, light yellowish pilosity and a few brown pili just below the antennae, medial region bare from oral margin to antennal base. Frons with dense yellowish-gold pollinosity, reaching from the eye contiguity to the base of the antennal prominence. Antennal prominence and lunule bare, the lunule orange in ground colour while the prominence is dark brown to black. Frons with long light yellow pilosity laterally, some brown pile on antennal tubercle, medial pile yellow with brown tips. Vertex short, eye contiguity almost touching ocellar triangle, angle at eye contiguity approximately 35°; ocellar triangle acutely angled, clearly raised, with long and medium length brown pile anteriorly and long golden pile with brown tips posteriorly, anterior ocellus round, posterior ocelli oval, about 1.5 times as long as wide. Occiput with golden pile dorsocentrally, brown pile dorsolaterally and white pile laterally. All pile of similar thickness; with pale yellow white pollinosity laterally, bare dorsally. Eyes bare, kidney-shaped in lateral view. Frontal ommatidia slightly enlarged in a large area above the antennae.Antennae orange-brown, darker dorsally; elongate, slightly shorter than the maximum width of the face, narrow, parallel sided in lateral view, on dorsal side pedicel about as long as the scape, postpedicel 2.5 times the length of the pedicel; scape and pedicel with short thick dark brown pilosity, postpedicel bare, with sparse brown pollinosity; arista bare, inserted basally, about 1.3 times the length of the postpedicel. + + +THORAX +( +Fig. 7 +). Scutum evenly rounded, except for a medium sized raised oval bump on each side, anterior to the suture; black with bronze sheen, postalar callus and surrounding scutum brownish. Scutum covered in short and long pilosity, slightly shorter dorsomedially and slightly longer laterally, yellowish with dark brown tips on long pile over most of the scutum, anterolaterally some pili yellowish for entire length, each pilus on a tiny, rounded, raised, non-pollinose base. Scutal pollinosity densest between the postpronotum and transverse suture, a small area along the suture and posteromedial to the postalar calli, yellow-brown. The remainder of the scutum without pollinosity. Scutellum broad and large, ~60% the width and ~35% the length of the scutum; dark brown to black; pilosity long and short, denser and longer than on the scutum, pile yellowish, the longer pile with dark tips. The relatively smaller size of the raised bases makes the scutellum look smoother (particularly on the margin) than in other species; base narrowly bare (may be obscured by the scutal pile), smooth, with a long, multi-rowed, light subscutellar fringe. Pleura black with bronzy sheen; evenly rounded except for a moderate bulge on the posterolateral anepisternum; yellow to white pollinose, most dense on the anterior anepisternum, bare on the triangular part of the anepimeron, evenly spread over other pleurae; pilosity yellowish, bases smaller than on scutum. Dense pilosity limited to patches on the posterior anepisternum, anepimeron, katepisternum and katatergite, pilosity on katepimeron long but less dense. Metasternum bare. Plumule long, yellowish orange. + + + +Figs 2–6. +Frontal view of the head of species of + +Afroxanthandrus +Kassebeer, 2000 + +. +2 +. + +A. comorosensis + +sp. nov. +, holotype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000056900). +3 +. + +A. congensis +( +Curran, 1938 +) + +, ♂ (ANHRTUK 00282353). +4 +. + +A. conopeum + +sp. nov. +, holotype, ♂ (NMSA-Dip 219971). +5 +. + +A. congensis + +, ♀ (ANHRTUK 00282352). +6 +. + +A. longipilus +Kassebeer, 2000 + +, ♀ (ANHRTUK 00282356). Scale bars = 1 mm. + + + +LEGS +. Hind coxae with a small tuft of pile at posteromedian angle and with scattered long, yellow-white pile. Mid coxae with shorter, scattered yellow-white pile, fore coxae with sparse yellow pile. Trochanters with scattered yellow pile. Fore and mid femur orange brown, hind femur orange brown basally and dark brown distally, fore femur curved, mid femur with a slight medial swelling, hind femur swollen in distal ⅔. Fore femur with long pile on the posterior and ventral surfaces, shorter on the anterior and dorsal surfaces, pile ranges in colour from yellow to brown, shorter pile generally darker, longer pile paler. Pile also somewhat paler basally. Mid femur with long pile posteriorly, shorter on other surfaces; long pile as long as femur thickness; short pile generally brown, long pile golden yellow, but basal pile also paler. Hind femur with shorter pile than other femora, slightly shorter than femur width; mostly brown, though golden basally. Fore tibia orange in basal ½, brown in distal ½, mid tibia orange in basal ⅔, brown distally, hind tibia brown. Tibial pile short and brown, slightly paler brown basally. Tarsi brown with brown pile. + + +WINGS +. Extensively microtrichose, small bare patches at base of c and cup cells. Cell bm bare basally only, with a small patch of denser microtrichia in the distal region, in line with the knot (the thickened part of the vein in br) of the spurious vein. Cell br bare basally, with a small bare patch basomedially. Cell cua bare basally only. Calypters yellow to orange, darker dorsally, with fringe of very long yellowish orange pile. Halteres whitish. + + +ABDOMEN +( +Fig. 13 +). Elongate, broadly oval. Shorter than the wings, about as wide as the thorax. tergite 1 yellow, with a thin posterior black margin; tergite 2 yellow, with a thin black posterior margin, extending on the lateral margin for a very short distance. Tergites 3–4 yellow, with thin black borders on all sides. Tergite 5 yellow. Tergite 2 slightly shorter than tergite 3, tergite 2 and tergite 4 of the same length, and tergite 5 about 1/5 the length of tergite 3. Pile on dorsal surface short, brown centrally and light brown laterally, somewhat longer lateral to tergite 1 and basolateral to tergite 2. Pile on margin longer, pale yellow on tergites 1–2, dark brown on posterior of tergite 2 and tergites 3–5. Sternites yellow, pile long, thin and yellow on sternites 1–2, shorter, thicker and brown on sternites 3–5. + + +MALE +GENITALIA +( +Figs 18–19 +). Small ( +0.5 mm +long). Superior lobes projecting posteriorly, slightly shorter than surstyli, somewhat truncated apically, with a ventral projection in lateral view. Surstyli small, about twice as long as wide, rounded apically and covered in small hairs. Hypandrium shorter than superior lobes. + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + +Figs 7–8. +Lateral view of species of + +Afroxanthandrus +Kassebeer, 2000 + +. +7 +. + +A. comorosensis + +sp. nov. +, holotype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000056900). +8 +. + +A. congensis +( +Curran, 1938 +) + +, ♂ (ANHRTUK 00282353). Scale bars = 1 mm. + + + + + +Distribution + + + +Known only from +Nzwani +Island in the +Comoros +Archipelago. + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/F7/7B/87/F77B87D1FFC9FFF46A5F30F3FEA4FE23.xml b/data/F7/7B/87/F77B87D1FFC9FFF46A5F30F3FEA4FE23.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ad0b2616aae --- /dev/null +++ b/data/F7/7B/87/F77B87D1FFC9FFF46A5F30F3FEA4FE23.xml @@ -0,0 +1,468 @@ + + + +A revision of the Afrotropical hover fly genus Afroxanthandrus Kassebeer, 2000 (Diptera, Syrphidae), with the description of two new species and one new synonymy + + + +Author + +Midgley, John M. +FBAB428E-8A94-42AF-A489-F5131CF05A87 +KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Department of Natural Sciences, 237 Jabu Ndlovu Street, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa. & Rhodes University, Department of Zoology and Entomology, P. O. Box 94, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa. +jmidgley@nmsa.org.za + + + +Author + +Goergen, Georg +11B63B43-550B-46BE-B9BF-BC1F0A803FAA +International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Biodiversity Centre, 08 BP 0932 Tri Postal, Cotonou, Benin. +G.Goergen@cgiar.org + + + +Author + +Jordaens, Kurt +8E90942E-C18C-4E7D-8158-9990AD010470 +Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of Biology and JEMU, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium. +kurt.jordaens@africamuseum.be + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-10-29 + + +968 + + +60 +85 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2717/12495 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2717 +2118-9773 +14006214 +B0360A6E-1283-45FC-B973-E9CF21ABAEC8 + + + + + + +Afroxanthandrus conopeum + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +23AB5783-35B3-45B9-B0BD-23EE2DE87FF3 + + + + + +Figs 1 +, +4 +, +9 +, +15 +, +22–24 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +Differs from + +A. congensis + +and + +A. longipilus + +in having broad yellow fasciae on tergites 2 and 3 which occupies almost the entire tergite ( + +A. congensis + +with a narrower, curved yellow fascia which occupies at most half of tergites 2 and 3, + +A. longipilus + +with a narrow, curved fascia on tergite 2 occupying at most half of the tergite, and with a narrow, straight fascia on tergite 3 which occupies at most one third of the tergite) and from + +A. comorosensis + +sp. nov. +in having tergite 4 with a narrower fascia than on tergite 3 (fasciae of equal width in + +A. comorosensis + +). Surstyli extremely elongated, eight times as long as wide (2 to 2.5 times as long as wide in + +A. comorosensis + +and + +A. congensis + +) + + + + + +Etymology + + +Named for the canopy inhabiting behaviour observed in this species. To be treated as a noun in apposition. + + + + +Type material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +SOUTH AFRICA +• +♂ +; +KwaZulu-Natal +, +Giant’s Castle Nature Reserve +, +Main +caves forest; +29.271814 S +, +29.526489 E +; + +30 Jan. 2023 + +; +K. Jordaens +, +J. Midgley +and +T. Bellingan +leg.; NMSA, NMSA-Dip 219971. + + + + +Paratypes + + + + +MALAWI +• +1 ♂ +; +Southern Region +, +Zomba + + +Plateau +Mountain + +Road + +; elev. + +1400 m + +; + +5 Oct. 1998 + +; +F. Kaplan +and +A. Freidberg +leg. +USNM +, +USNMENT 01842997 + +. + + + +SOUTH AFRICA +– + +KwaZulu-Natal + +• +1 ♂ +; +Croc Velley Nature Reserve +near +Sheffield Beach +; +29°28′37″ S +, +31°15′04″ E +; elev. + +60 m + +; + +12 Jun. 2001 + +; +J.G.H. Londt +leg.; in patch of swamp forest; NMSA, NMSA-Dip 064762 + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Karkloof +, +Shawswood Forest +; +29.306404 S +. +30.303695 E +; + +13 Nov. 2018 + +; +J. Midgley +, +K. Williams +and +K. Jordaens +leg.; NMSA, NMSA-Dip 086808 + +• + +1 ♂ +; same data as for preceding; AB48930365, +GenBank +: PP828580; NMSA, NMSA-Dip 086809 + +• + +1 ♂ +; same data as for preceding; AB48930348 +GenBank +: PP828579; NMSA, NMSA-Dip 086826 + +. – + + +Western Cape + +• +1 ♂ +; +Groenkop forest +; + +29 Jan. 2022 + +; +R. Swart +leg.; collected from flowers of + +Curtisia dentata + +; +RMCA +, +RMCA +ENT 000056904 + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +MEASUREMENTS +. Body: +9.2–10.1 mm +; wing: 7.1–8.0 mm. + + +Male + + +HEAD +( +Fig. 4 +). Black, with medium facial tubercle and a medium sized antennal prominence. Face straight in profile; parallel sided, approximately 30% of the maximum head width; covered with dense, yellowish-white pollinosity, completely obscuring the black ground colour, thinner pollinosity on the oral margin and gena, facial tubercle bare; with medium to long, light yellowish pilosity, medial region bare from oral margin to antennal base. Frons with dense yellowish-white pollinosity, reaching from the eye contiguity to the base of the antennal prominence. The antennal prominence and lunule are bare, the lunule orange in ground colour, the prominence dark brown to black. Frons with medium to long, light yellow pilosity, lunule and antennal tubercle bare. Vertical triangle with some dark brown pilosity anteriorly, 2–3 times the width of the anterior ocellus, with a few longer, golden brown pili anteriorly and a dense patch of long pile posteriorly; vertex elongated, narrow, angle at eye contiguity approximately 30°; ocellar triangle acutely angled, clearly raised, anterior ocellus round, posterior ocelli oval, about 1.5 times as long as wide. Occiput with pale brown to dark yellow pilosity dorsally, white laterally, thin dorsally but broad and scale like laterally, with pale yellow white pollinosity. Eyes bare, kidney-shaped in lateral view. Frontal ommatidia slightly enlarged only in a small area above the antennae. Antennae orange-brown, paler basally; elongate, slightly longer than the maximum width of the face, narrow, rounded apically, on dorsal side pedicel about the same length as the scape, postpedicel 2.5 times the length of the pedicel. Scape and pedicel orange basally and darker apically, with short to medium, thick, dark brown pilosity, postpedicel dark, with sparse pollinosity but no pilosity. Arista bare, inserted basally, about 1.2 times the length of the postpedicel. + + +THORAX +( +Fig. 9 +). Scutum evenly rounded, except for a small raised oval bump on each side, anterior to the suture; dark brown to black, postalar callus paler brown, postalar callus brown pilosity. Pilosity long, slightly longer and much denser laterally, golden brown, each pilus on a small, rounded, raised, non-pollinose base. Scutal pollinosity densest between the suture and postpronotum and along the suture, a less dense pollinosity forms a wide strip in front of the scutellum and across the anterior half of the scutum, light yellow-brown; sparse on the remainder of the scutum. Scutellum very broad and large, ~60% the width and ~40% the length of the scutum; dark brown to black; pilosity denser than on the scutum, the density of the raised bases making the surface rough and the margin appear serrated; base narrowly bare, smooth; with a long, multi-rowed, yellowish brown subscutellar fringe. Pleura dark brown to black; evenly rounded except for a moderate bulge on the posterolateral anepisternum; yellow to white pollinose, most dense on the posterior anepisternum, katepisternum, meron, and katepimeron; pilosity yellowish brown, long, bases smaller than on scutum, longer on dorsal posterior anepisternum. Dense pilosity limited to patches on the posterior anepisternum, anepimeron, katepisternum, the katatergite, scattered pilosity on the katepimeron. Metasternum bare. Plumule brownish anteriorly, yellow posteriorly. + + + +Figs 18–23. +Male genitalia of species of + +Afroxanthandrus +Kassebeer, 2000 + +. +18–20 +. Dorsal views. +18 +. + +A. comorosensis + +sp. nov. +, holotype (RMCA ENT 000056900). +19 +. + +A. congensis +( +Curran, 1938 +) + +(RMCA ENT 000028396). +20 +. + +A. conopeum + +sp. nov. +, paratype (NMSA-Dip 086809). +21–23 +. Lateral views. +21 +. + +A. comorosensis + +sp. nov. +, holotype (RMCA ENT 000056900). +22 +. + +A. congensis + +(RMCA ENT 000028396). +23 +. + +A. conopeum + +sp. nov. +, paratype (NMSA-Dip 086809). Scale bars = 0.5 mm. + + + +LEGS +. Hind coxa with a distinct tuft of pile at posteromedian angle, with scattered long, brown and yellow-white pile on the anterior surface, mid coxa with scattered, yellowish brown pile. Fore coxa with a few, yellow-white pili on medial distal margins. Trochanters with yellowish pile. Fore and mid femur brown with small pale (white to yellow) sections at the base and apex, hind femur dark brown, with white to yellow basal section and lighter brown ventrodistal section, fore femur curved, mid femur with a slight medial swelling, hind femur swollen in distal two thirds. Fore femur with short, yellowish brown pile, mid femur with long pile basally, longer than width of the femur, gradually shorter distally, at apex less than half the width of the femur, pile yellow-brown basally, brown distally, hind femur covered with a mix of short and long pile, yellowish on pale parts of the femur, brown on darker parts. Fore tibia pale yellow, mid tibia yellowish white, hind tibia orange in basal 2/5, brown distally. Fore and mid tibiae with short, yellow-white pile, hind tibia with short, dark brown pile on most of the surface, longer on anterior surface. Fore tarsus brown. Mid tarsus with two yellowish basal segments and three brown apical segments. Hind tarsus brown. All tarsi with brown pile, paler dorsobasally on fore and mid tarsi. + + +WINGS +. Extensively microtrichose in apical part, bare patches at base of cells c, r 1, dm, cup. Alula entirely microtrichose. Cell bm extensively bare, but with a small dense patch of microtrichia in the distal region, in line with the knot of the spurious vein. Cell br mostly bare, but with some microtrichia anterior to and distal of the knot of the spurious vein. Cell cua extensively bare, with some microtrichia centrally. Calypters yellow to orange, darker dorsally, with fringe of long yellowish orange pile. Halteres whitish. + + +ABDOMEN +( +Fig. 15 +). Elongate, broadly oval, though tergite 2 parallel sided. Shorter than the wings, about as wide as or slightly broader than the thorax. Tergite 1 yellow, with a thin dark brown posterior border; tergite 2 yellowish white basally, gradually becoming yellow then orange, posteriorly with small brown maculae that become denser and form a brown band on the posterior margin. Lateral margins of tergite 2 thinly yellow, joining with the main yellow marking anteriorly. Tergite 3 orange, with thin brown posterior border. Tergite 4 orange with broad brown posterior border, occupying about half the length of tergite 4. Tergite 5 brown. Tergite 2 slightly longer than tergite 3, tergite 3 and tergite 4 the same length and tergite 5 small, about ¼ the length of tergite 4. Pile numerous but short, light brown centrally and yellow laterally, somewhat longer lateral to tergite 1 and basolateral to tergite 2. Sternite 1 white, sternite 2 white anteriorly, faintly yellow near posterior edge, sternite 3 pale yellow, sternite 4 orange brown, sternite 5 onwards to the genitalia dark brown. Short white pile on sternites 1–2, yellowish on posterior sternites. + + +MALE +GENITALIA +( +Figs 22–23 +). Large ( +1.2 mm +long). Superior lobes projecting inwards, about half as long as surstyli, strongly curved in dorsal view, rounded apically in lateral view. Surstyli extremely elongated, about 8 times as long as wide, rounded apically and covered in small hairs. Hypandrium projects past superior lobes. + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Distribution + + + +Known from +Malawi +and +South Africa +( +KwaZulu-Natal +and +Western Cape +provinces). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +This species has been collected from indigenous forest patches (Southern Afrotemperate Forest, FOz1; Southern Mistbelt Forest, FOz3; Northern Coastal Forest, FOz7 ( +Mucina & Rutherford 2006 +)). +One specimen +was collected from flowers of + +Curtisia dentata +(Burm.f.) C.A.Sm. + +( +Cornaceae +) in the forest canopy. + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/F7/7B/87/F77B87D1FFD5FFF269BA3485FD80FD6C.xml b/data/F7/7B/87/F77B87D1FFD5FFF269BA3485FD80FD6C.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8d03b0577da --- /dev/null +++ b/data/F7/7B/87/F77B87D1FFD5FFF269BA3485FD80FD6C.xml @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ + + + +A revision of the Afrotropical hover fly genus Afroxanthandrus Kassebeer, 2000 (Diptera, Syrphidae), with the description of two new species and one new synonymy + + + +Author + +Midgley, John M. +FBAB428E-8A94-42AF-A489-F5131CF05A87 +KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Department of Natural Sciences, 237 Jabu Ndlovu Street, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa. & Rhodes University, Department of Zoology and Entomology, P. O. Box 94, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa. +jmidgley@nmsa.org.za + + + +Author + +Goergen, Georg +11B63B43-550B-46BE-B9BF-BC1F0A803FAA +International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Biodiversity Centre, 08 BP 0932 Tri Postal, Cotonou, Benin. +G.Goergen@cgiar.org + + + +Author + +Jordaens, Kurt +8E90942E-C18C-4E7D-8158-9990AD010470 +Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of Biology and JEMU, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium. +kurt.jordaens@africamuseum.be + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-10-29 + + +968 + + +60 +85 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2717/12495 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2717 +2118-9773 +14006214 +B0360A6E-1283-45FC-B973-E9CF21ABAEC8 + + + + + + +Afroxanthandrus longipilus +Kassebeer, 2000 + +stat. rev. + + + + + +Figs 1 +, +6 +, +11 +, +17 +, +24 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +Differs from + +A. comorosensis + +sp. nov. +and + +A. conopeum + +sp. nov. +in the curved posterior margin to the yellow fascia on tergite 2 (straight in + +A. comorosensis + +and + +A. conopeum + +) and from + +A. congensis + +in the broad but thin fascia on tergite 3 (narrower and thicker in + +A. congensis + +). + + + + + +Type material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO +• +♀ +; +South Kivu Province +, +Kapanga +; 1952; +Froidebise +leg.; +RMCA +, +RMCA +ENT 000016800 +. + + + + +Paratype + + + + +DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO +• +1 ♀ +; +Maniema Province +, +Nyangwe +; + +Apr.–May 1918 + +; +R. Mayné +leg.; +RMCA +, +RMCA +ENT 000056901 + +. + + + +Other material examined + + + + +REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO +• +1 ♀ +; +Sangha Department +, +Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park +, +Mbeli +camp; +2°14′23.8″ N +, +16°23′52.1″ E +; elev. + +372 m + +; + +14–20 Feb. 2023 + +; +N.M. Bakala +, +V. Derozier +, +A. Kirk-Spriggs +and +G. László +leg.; carrion bait; +ANHRT 2023.3 +; +RMCA +DNA 1587B07 +; +GenBank +: PP828578; +ANHRT +, +ANHRTUK 00282356 + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +MEASUREMENTS +. Body: +9.1–10.3 mm +; wing: 7.3–9.0 mm. + + +Female + + +HEAD +( +Fig. 6 +). Black, with medium sized facial tubercle and a medium sized antennal prominence and medium sized frontal protuberance. Face straight in profile with a medium sized facial tubercle; widest just below the antennae, approximately 44% of the maximum head width, slightly narrowed ventrally, narrowest in line with dorsal oral margin, approximately 38% of maximum head width; covered with dense, yellowish-white pollinosity, completely obscuring the black ground colour, thinner pollinosity on the oral margin, gena and above the facial tubercle, facial tubercle bare; with medium length, light yellowish pilosity, medial region bare from oral margin to antennal base. Frons with yellowish-white pollinosity on the lower half, dense laterally but thinner medially, reaching from the frontal protuberance to the antennal prominence, the division between the pollinose and bare area forming a straight to slightly concave line. The antennal prominence and lunule are bare, the lunule orange in ground colour while the prominence is dark brown to black. Frons with medium length light yellow pilosity, sparse on lunule and antennal tubercle. Ocellar triangle acutely angled, clearly raised, anterior ocellus oval, about 0.6 times as long as wide, posterior ocelli oval, about 1.4 times as long as wide; with yellowish pilosity, short anteriorly but longer posteriorly. Occiput with pale brown to dark yellow pilosity dorsally, white laterally, thin dorsally but broad and scale like laterally; with pale yellow white pollinosity. Eyes bare, kidney-shaped in lateral view. Ommatidia equal sized across the eye. Antennae orange-brown; elongate, about as long as the maximum width of the face, narrow, parallel sided in lateral view, on dorsal side pedicel about as long as scape, postpedicel 2.5 times the length of the pedicel. Scape and pedicel with short thick dark brown pilosity, pedicel and postpedicel with sparse pollinosity, postpedicel without pilosity. Arista bare, inserted basally, about 1.2 times the length of the postpedicel. + + +THORAX +( +Fig. 11 +). Scutum evenly rounded, except for a small raised oval bump on each side, anterior to the suture; black, postpronotum and postalar callus brownish, postalar callus with fine golden brown pilosity. Pilosity short dorsomedially, longer laterally, light brown, each pilis on a small, rounded, raised, base, which is not covered in pollinosity. Scutal pollinosity densest between the suture and postpronotum, along the suture, posterior to the suture and in an indistinct strip in front of the scutellum, light yellow-brown. Less dense on the remainder of the scutum. Scutellum very broad and large, ~60% the width and ~35% the length of the scutum; dark brown to black; pilosity denser than on the scutum, the density of the raised bases making the surface rough and the margin appear serrated; base narrowly bare (somewhat obscured by scutal pile), smooth; with a long, multi-rowed, light subscutellar fringe. Pleura dark brown to black; evenly rounded except for a moderate bulge on the posterolateral anepisternum; yellow to white pollinose, approximately even across pleura; pilosity yellowish white, bases smaller than on scutum. Dense pilosity limited to patches on the posterior anepisternum, anepimeron, katepisternum, and katatergite, scattered pilosity on the katepimeron. Metasternum bare. Plumule orangish yellow. + + +LEGS +. Hind coxa with a small tuft of pile at posteromedian angle, with long, yellow-white pile on anterior surfaces; mid coxa with long pile on anterior surfaces; fore coxa with shorter, yellow pile on posterior distal margins. Trochanters with long yellow-white pile. Fore and mid femur orange brown with small yellow-orange sections at the base and apex, hind femur orange brown, with yellow basal section and more orange venterodistal section, fore femur slightly curved and thicker medially, mid femur with a slight medial swelling, hind femur swollen in distal two thirds. Fore and mid femur with medium length yellow pile, hind femur mostly covered with medium to long white pile, but with some dark pile in distal ⅓. Fore tibia completely white on posterior surface, white in basal ½ of anterior surface, brown in distal ½; mid tibia ranges from completely white in the +holotype +to white in basal ½, brown in distal ½; hind tibia brown. Pale sections of tibiae with short to medium yellow white pile, dark sections with short dark brown pile. Fore tarsus dark brown dorsally but paler brown ventrally. Mid basitarsus white in +holotype +, yellow in +paratype +and brown in ANHRTUK00282356, distal segments brown in all specimens, slightly darker dorsally. Hind tarsus brown dorsally, orange brown ventrally. All tarsi with brown pile, somewhat darker dorsally than ventrally. + + +WINGS +. Extensively microtrichose in apical part, bare patches at base of c, r1, discal medial, cup cells. Alula evenly microtrichose. Cell bm extensively bare, but with a small dense patch of microtrichia in the distal region, in line with the knot of the spurious vein. Basal radial cell mostly bare, but with some microtrichia anterior to the knot of the spurious vein. Cell cua extensively bare, with some microtrichia centrally. Calypters yellow, darker dorsally, with fringe of long yellowish pile. Halteres yellow. + + +ABDOMEN +( +Fig. 17 +). Elongate, broadly oval, though tergite 3 parallel sided. Slightly shorter than the wings, about as wide as the thorax, basic colour dark brown with dull, orange yellow markings. Tergite 1 orange yellow, slightly darker in a thin band at medial posterior boundary; tergite 2 light basally, extending medially to form a large medial marking with straight posterolateral sides, making the marking triangular in shape. Lateral margins of tergite 2 thinly yellow, joining with the main yellow marking anteriorly. Tergite 3 anterior with a narrow anteromedial band, about ⅓ of the length of tergite 3, almost reaching the borders of the tergite laterally and extending slightly posteriorly. Tergite 2 slightly longer than tergite 3, tergite 3 and tergite 4 of the same length and tergite 5 about ½ the length of tergite 4. Pile short centrally, longer laterally, golden brown, somewhat longer and paler lateral to tergite 1 and basolateral to tergite 2. Lateral fringe of pile Sternites light yellowish brown, slightly darker posteriorly, pile medium to long, yellowish. + + +Male + +Unknown. + + + + +Distribution + + + +Known from +the Democratic Republic of the Congo +( +Kivu +: Kapanga and Nyangwe) and the +Republic of the Congo +. + + + + + +Remarks + + + +Despite being from neighbouring countries, the known localities for + +A. longipilus + +are spread over ~ +1500 km +, suggesting that the species is widespread but uncommonly encountered. All known localities are in Guineo-Congolian forests. + + + + \ No newline at end of file