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 pulla
(
Wiedemann, 1830
)
Fig. 6
Coenosia pulla
Wiedemann, 1830: 441
.
Orthostylum rufipes
Macquart, 1851
a
: 245
(1851
b
: 272)
.
Atherigona destructor
Malloch, 1923: 185
.
Atherigona pulla
: Pont 1972: 51
, fig. 14 (synonymised with
A. destructor
); Deeming 1979: 39.
Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from most other species in having yellow vibrissae, compared to the more common infusted state in others. It can be distinguished from
A. angulata
due to the shape of the trifoliate process. It can further be distinguished from
A. chrysohypene
by the shape of the hypopygial prominence which is knoblike and emarginate compared to the latter’s being bilobate.
Type material:
Paralectotype
♀
housed in
Natural History Museum
of
Denmark
(
ZMUC
), but not seen
.
Other material examined:
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Free State
:
1♂
Brandfort
,
Florisbad Research Station
,
28°46.039'S
26°04.234'E
,
Acacia
Savanna
,
4–6.iv.2009
,
A.H. Kirk-Spriggs
,
Malaise trap
(
BMSA
(D) 05525)
;
Western Cape
:
1♂
Clanwilliam
32 km
NE Clanwilliam
,
Brandewyn
R. [River],
2–3.x.1997
,
R.M. Miller
(
NMSA
)
;
1♂
Kroonplanskloof
,
10 km
S Citrusdal
,
32°40'S
19°01'E
,
200–270 m
,
4–8.x.1994
,
R. Danielsson
(
MZLU
)
.
Distribution:
Kenya
,
Madagascar
,
Mali
,
Morocco
,
Nigeria
,
South Africa
,
Sudan
,
Uganda
,
Zimbabwe
.