A Review Of The Afrotropical Species Of Leptocera Olivier (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) Author Papp, L. text Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 2012 2012-08-10 58 3 225 258 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5735888 2064-2474 5735888 Leptocera nigra OLIVIER, 1813 Leptocera nigra OLIVIER, 1813: 489 . For detailed synonymy see ROHÁČEK et al . 2001: 156 . The HNHM has 47 specimens from the Congo , Ethiopia and R .S.A, identified by Dr J. ROHÁČEK (c. 3000 identified specimens from other regions). Additional specimens: Ethiopia : 1 male : Akaki river , Addis Ababa , No. 115., 6. X. 1980 ., leg. Demeter. Rwanda : 1 male : Kagera Nat. Park , 1988. V . 1., leg. Vojnits. Figs 75–76. Leptocera spp. , wings. 75 = L. kovacsi DUDA , paralectotype male. 76 = L. erratica , South African form, female Figs 77–83. Leptocera erratica , South African form, male postabdomen: 77 = sternite 5 and posteromedial part in higher magnification, ventral view, 78 = synsternite, ventral view, 79 = subepandrial sclerite and left ventral part of epandrial complex with posterior part of surstylus, caudal view, 80 = anterior part of surstylus, lateral view, 81 = postgonite, lateral view, 82 = ventral part of epandrium with hypandrium, anterior and posterior parts of surstyli, lateral view, 83 = left postgonite, in broadest (oblique lateral) view. Scale bars: 0.4 mm for Fig. 78, 0.2 mm for Figs 77, 79, 82, 0.1 mm for Figs 80–81, 83 There are c. 370 specimens of L. nigra /salatigae in 50 vials of alcohol at the HNHM from the Congo (Brazzaville) and Ghana ; most of which have not been dissected and remain unidentified (see also under L. salatigae ). ROHÁČEK’ s (1982, 1983) figures on the male and female genitalia provide a sound basis to identify these species. I was unable to find non-genitalic characters that would separate L. nigra from L. salatigae . Distribution. Widely distributed in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions (in details see ROHÁČEK et al ., 2001 and MARSHALL et al ., 2011 ). Limosina (Paracollinella) chambii VANSCHUYTBROECK, 1950: 24 , syn. n. Material studied: Holotype male ( MRAC ): 1) m; 2) [reddish] HOLOTYPUS ; 3) Musée du Congo , Parc Albert : “Chumbi XI” – 1933, Dr De Wulf ; 4) [reverse, reddish] TYPE ; 5) R . DET 5663 ; 6) P. Vanschuytbroeck det., 1950 “ Paracollinella m chambii nsp.”; 7) “ Leptocera (s.str.) chambii (Vansch.) J. ROHÁČEK det. 1982”; 8) [code label of MRAC ] RMCA ENT 000016278 . In a rather poor state of preservation: head removed and glued to polyporus block in front of minuten pin, frontal setae rubbed off, upper half of right wing lost, remainder stuck to left wing; fore tarsi (except right basitarsus) and hind legs missing; mesonotal and scutellar setae rubbed off except 2 right basal scutellar setae. Abdomen and genitalia in a small microvial [J. ROHÁČEK] pinned below label 1 ). Paratypes ( MRAC ) : 14 male and 14 female paratypes ( MRAC , all in a very good state of preservation, supplemented now with “m” / “f” signs) : 1 male 2 females : same labels; 1 female : ibid., without “plaine de lave” ; 1 male 1 female : ibid., Kivu , Katana , “Kibati X–1933 ” ; 6 males 6 females (plus 1 male paratype in the HNHM , through an exchange in the 1970ies): ibid., Chumbi XI–1933 ; 1 male 2 females : ibid., Kibati , – 1933 ( 200 m . dessus gîte) ; 1 female : ibid., P.N. A. –1933, cratère Mugunga ; 1 male : ibid., N. Kivu : Kibati , XI-XII–1963 ; 1 male : ibid., Rutshuru , I–1934 ; 2 males 1 female : ibid., Envir. Mission Rugari (Lulenga), –1933 . 1 female (not conspecific with holotype ): PARATYPUS – Musée du Congo , N. Kivu : X–1933 , Kibati (plaine de lave) Dr De Wulf – R . DET. 5663 – “ Chaetopodella ? denigrata (Duda) m det. L. Papp 2011”; head lost, in a very poor state of preservation: left wing with part of thorax and left mid and hind legs all lost . L. chambii was treated as a separate (valid) species formerly, see ROHÁČEK et al (2001) . Its synonymy with L. nigra is proposed here.