Notes on the Phycini of southern Africa with the description of a new genus and two new species (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae) Author Lyneborg, Leif Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark text ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 1987 1987-12-31 28 2 467 474 journal article 269420 http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8380588 2c36411f-dde7-4a7e-97a1-206ae5f62c39 https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA03040798_396 8380588 Stenogephyra minuta sp. n. Fig. 22 Etymology: Refers to the very small size of this species; in fact one of the smallest therevids so far recorded. Description, ♂ . Differs from ♂ of torrida , described above, as follows: overall smaller, total length 3,0- 3,3 mm . Eyes lower, nearly circular in lateral view. Upper occiput polished black, white-grey tomentum consequently only present on lower section of postocular margin. Pile of head longer. Antenna ( Fig. 22 ) with first flagellomere characteristically downcurved apically. Thorax coloured as in torrida , but pile longer, and with fewer setae, viz., np = 2, sa = 1, pa = 1, dc = 0 (but long hairs in the position), and sc = 1. Vein M2 usually reaches wing-margin, but in one specimen it is slightly abbreviated in one wing only. Wings more hyaline, and halter entirely brown-black. Femora blackish, with rather thick white-grey tomentum and white pile. Tibiae and tarsi brown-black to black. Abdomen as in torrida , but pile longer. Male genitalia agreeing in all details with those of torrida , but ventral epandrial sclerite (cf. Fig. 12 ) is only one-third as wide as epandrium, and distiphallus (cf. Fig. 16 ) is slightly more slender. ♀ . As ♂ , but frons wider, and first flagellomere shorter and narrower, but curved as in ♂ . Legs coloured as in male, and thus very different from female of torrida , which has largely yellowish legs. Total length: 3,5-4,0 mm. Material examined : Cape Province : ♂ ( holotype ), Karoo at junction of Calvinia­Sutherland Rd. nr. Inverdoorn Ceres , 33°12 'S , 19°44 'E , 2-3. x. 1959 , B. & P. Stuckenberg ( NM ) ; 4 ♂ 1 ♀ ( paratypes ), same data as holotype ( NM ZMC ) ; 1 縠 ( paratype ), Uniondale district , x.1952 , Mus. Exp. ( SAM ) .