Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described Author Deeming, John C. B8B9E727-C28B-458A-B48C-40D14A95999C Honorary Research Fellow, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, United Kingdom. john.deeming@honorary.museumwalesac.uk text European Journal of Taxonomy 2022 2022-11-30 847 1 121 144 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987 journal article 199614 10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987 959db0c5-f3f6-4c1b-93df-c60fb832d192 2118-9773 7387430 880CEE9A-25B5-4620-90D2-D109E949059E Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971 Fig. 1a Material examined GUINEA • 5 ♂♂ , 12 ♀♀ ; Nimba , “Fôrét du Zié” [Zié Forest] ; 1500 m a.s.l. ; 6 Jan. 1984 ; C. Girard leg.; MNHN • 2 ♂♂ , 2 ♀♀ ; same collection data as for preceding; NMWC . Remarks Described from a single male from the Mambilla Plateau , Nigeria ( Deeming 1971: 173 ). Female: apart from sexual characters differing from the male in the following respects: palpus black; scutellum black throughout; pleura black in ground colour with exception of propleuron and anterior one third of anepisternum; all tarsi infuscate; fore femur black on all but extreme base and apex; fore tibia black on apical two thirds of its length; a pair of brownish black spots on tergites 4 and 5, those on 4 longer and more triangular in shape, those on 5 oblong; tergite 8 ( Fig. 1a ). Distribution Guinea , Nigeria .