Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera
Author
Londt, Jason G. H.
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Agrostomyia dimorpha
Sp. n.
Figs 1-6
Supplementary descriptive data:
Head:
black, gold-silver pruinose; antenna black, scape with long, yellow setae ventrally, pedicel with few pale yellow setae dorsally only; mystax and other cephalic setae yellow (paler in 9); palp blackish with terminal pit-like opening; proboscis black, straight,
ca.
same length as antenna.
Thorax:
blackish, gold-silver pruinose; mesonotal macrosetae yellow
(ca.
5 npl, 3 spal, 2 pal); ktg setae yellow; scutellum with yellow marginal macrosetae and minor setae which extend onto disc. Legs: femora orange; tibiae with proximal 縠 orange, distal l and entire tarsus dark red-brown to black.
Abdomen:
♂
- TIS 1 and posterior j of T2 blackish, other segments and terminalia orange; setae short, yellow. Genitalia as in Figs 4-6. ♀ - black, hind margins of T2-5 with slight traces of orange. Variation: some Namibian ♀♀ have upper parts of femora somewhat dark red-brown (especially hindlegs) while
cJ
may have a somewhat duller orange-brown abdominal coloration.
Material (
NMSA
-
Type
1096):
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Cape Province
:
5
♂
(HT & PT)
5 ♀
(
PT
): '
Sth Africa
Cape Prov / 30 Ian E. Groblershoop / 2822CD
19.iii.1982
/
J. Londt & L. Schoeman
/ Roadside vegetation' (
BMNH
-
1
♂
1 ♀
PT);
1
♂
(
PT
),
35 km
W of
Kimberley
, 2824CB,
17.iii. 1982
,
Londt & Schoeman
;
1 ♀
(
PT
),
14 km
S of
Hotazel
,
27° 19'S
:
22°54'E
,
14 7.iii.
1991
,
Londt & Whittington
;
1 ♀
(
PT
), 20 Km N of Hotazel,
27°07'S
:
22°59'E
,
14.iii. 1991
,
Whittington & Londt
;
I
♀
(
PT
),
26 km
E of Upington
,
28°23'S
:
21 °29'E
,
16.iii. 1991
,
Whittington & Londt
;
2
♂
2♀
(
PT
), 18 Km NNW of Marydale,
29° 15'S
:
22°04'E
,
18.iii. 1991
,
Whittington & Londt
.
NAMIBIA
:
2
♂
2 9 (PT),
28 km
W Outjo
,
20 12'S
:
15 53'E
,
24.iii. 1984
,
Londt & Stuckenberg
;
4
♂
2 ♀
(
PT
),
Gross Barmen Resort
,
22°07'S
:
16°42'E
,
29.iii. 1984
,
Londt & Stuckenberg
;
2
♂
1 ♀
(
PT
):
26 km
N Windhoek
,
22°20'S
:
17°04'E
,
29.iii. 1984
,
Londt & Stuckenberg
;
4
♂
3 ♀
(
PT
),
Okahandja
,
21°59'S
:
16°37'E
,
28.iii. 1984
,
Londt & Stuckenberg
;
2
♂
2♀
(
PT
),
28 km
E Khorixas
, 20016'S:15° 12'E,
24.iii. 1984
,
Londt & Stuckenberg
;
I
♀
(
PT
), 54 Ian S Khorixas, 20043'S: 14°49'E,
26.iii. 1984
,
Londt & Stuckenberg
;
1
♂
(
PT
),
13 km
S of Windhoek
, 2217CA,
18.iv. 1983
,
Stuckenberg & Londt
;
6
♂
2 ♀
(
PT
),
Otavi
[
19°39'S
:
17°20'E
],
18.iii. 1988
, Manning;
1
♂
(
PT
),
Windhoek
[
22°35'S
:
17°05'E
]
Distr
.,
Farm Portsmut
33, 14-24.iv.
1972,
Strydom & Jones
;
2
♂
(
PT
),
Hardap
dam [2417BD],
Mariental
Distr
.,
10-14.iv.1972
,
Strydom & Jones
;
I
♂
I
♀
(
PT
),
Otjimbumbe
[?],
Kunene R.
,
iii. 1923
,
Mus. Exped
. (
SAMC
);
7♂
1
♀
(
PT
),
Kaross
[
River
-
19°30'S
:
14°20'E
],
ii. 1925
,
Mus. Exped
. (
SAMC
);
1
♂
(
PT
), Erikson's Drift [?],
Kunene R.
,
iii. 1923
,
Mus. Exped
. (
SAMC
).
Etymology
: Gr.
di
- two +
morphe
- form (refers to the sexual dimorphism displayed by this species)
.