Illustrated key and systematics of male South African Atherigona s. str. (Diptera: Muscidae)
Author
Muller, B. S.
text
African Invertebrates
2015
2015-12-31
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.5733/afin.056.0301
journal article
10.5733/afin.056.0301
2305-2562
7915060
Atherigona binubila
van Emden, 1940
Fig. 26
Atherigona binubila
van Emden, 1940: 138
, fig. 10;
Deeming 1971: 180
, figs 151, 152; 1979: 48, fig. 46. Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others by its infuscated frontal vitta and palpi. The wings have brownish suffusions over the humeral crossvein and
ScR
1
.
The hypopygial prominence is knoblike, with two strongly projecting tubercles and the trifoliate process has its median piece and lateral plates narrow.
Type material examined:
Holotype
♂
:
KENYA
: ‘
Van Someren
, Nairod[b]i,
ix. 1937
’ (
NHMUK
).
Distribution:
Kenya
,
Mali
,
Nigeria
,
South Africa
,
Zimbabwe
.