Illustrated key and systematics of male South African Atherigona s. str. (Diptera: Muscidae) Author Muller, B. S. text African Invertebrates 2015 2015-12-31 56 3 845 845 http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.5733/afin.056.0301 journal article 10.5733/afin.056.0301 2305-2562 7915060 Atherigona ruficornis Stein, 1913 Fig. 38 Atherigona ruficornis Stein, 1913: 532 ; van Emden 1940: 121 , figs 20, 50. Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from similar species such as A. rubricornis by its entirely yellow fore femur. The hypopygial prominence, whilst bifurcated and quite similar to that of A. rubricornis is more apically pointed. The trifoliate process is filiform in posterior view, and apically curved and dilated. Type material examined: Syntype ♂ : [ ZIMBABWE ]: ‘Salisbury [ Harare ], Mashonaland , G.A.K. Marshall’ ( ZMHB ) . Other material examined: ETHIOPIA : 2♂ Alemaya , vii–viii.1986 , T. Mesfin , leg. J.C. Deeming ( NMSA ) (Previously NMW.Z.1986–118) . SOUTH AFRICA : KwaZulu­Natal : 1♂ Cathedral Peak area , 5–6.ii.1993 , J.G.H. Londt , ex. Malaise ( NMSA ) . Distribution: Angola , Ethiopia , Kenya , Nigeria , South Africa , Tanzania , Uganda , Yemen , Zanzibar , Zimbabwe .