A revision of Afrotropical Chyromyidae (excluding Gymnochiromyia Hendel) (Diptera: Schizophora), with the recognition of two subfamilies and the description of new genera
Author
Ebejer, Martin J.
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African Invertebrates
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.050.0208
journal article
10.5733/afin.050.0208
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Somatiosoma hirtiscutellatum
(
Lamb, 1914
)
,
comb. n.
Chiromyia hirtiscutellata
:
Lamb 1914: 355
.
Lamb wrote that he had
two males
. The
holotype
(BMNH) is a female, but I was unable to recognize any external characters that would allow me to assign any of the new species to
hirtiscutellatum
. The
paratype
(CUMZ), on the other hand, is a headless male of a different species and it fits well the current concept of
nitescens
Frey
, for which a diagnosis is given below. Therefore, for the time being, the species
hirtiscutellatum
is known only from the
holotype
.
Diagnosis: Orange-yellow species with deeper yellow scutal stripes:
scut
without crossed apicals, but with discals and additional marginals, scutal setulae in 10 rows between
dc
lines;
mtn
dark on sides with middle two thirds yellow; all abdominal
tg
with brown bands. Postabdomen not dissected and no external distinguishing features noted.
Distribution:
Seychelles
.