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 perfida Stein, 1913 Fig. 34 Atherigona perfida Stein, 1913: 533 ; van Emden 1940: 126 , figs 26. 57; van Emden 1956: 520; Deeming 1971: 155 , figs 166, 167; Deeming 1979: 44, figs 30–34. Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from other species with a tridentate hypopygial prominence through the combination of entirely yellow forelegs and having the frontal vitta infuscated. Type material examined: Paralectotype ♂ : ETHIOPIA : Dire Daua , 19.xi.1911 , Abyssinia , Kovaca , Brit Mus. 1949-630., det. P. Stein ( ZMHB ) . Other material examined: BOTSWANA : 1♂ Tsessebe , Bechuanaland , i.1956 , F. Zumpt ( NHMUK ) . MALAWI : 2♂ Zomba Plateau , Chinwe’s Hole , Forest Patch , 12–13.iii.1987 , J.G.H. Londt & A. Londt , Malaise trap ( NMSA ) . SOUTH AFRICA : Eastern Cape : 1♂ Ingeli Forest , Kokstad Dist. Griqualand East, 17.x.1959 , B.R. Stuckenberg & P. Stuckenberg ( NMSA ) ; Gauteng : 1♂ Johannesburg , 27.iii.1949 , F. Zumpt ( NHMUK ) ; KwaZulu­Natal : 2♂ Cathedral Peak area , Forest & Grassland , 14–18.ix.1982 , D. Barraclough & C. Barraclough ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Cathedral Peak Edu. Camp , 11–12.ix.2004 , M.B. Mostovski , Yellow pan traps ( NMSA ) ; 3♂ Cathedral Peak N.R. , Didima , 28°57.4'S 29°14.4'E , 1420 m , 12–16.xii.2005 , M.B. Mostovski ( NMSA ) ; 7♂ Cathedral Peak , Didima , 28°57.000'S 29°14.395'E , 1422 m , 13–16.xii.2004 , M.B. Mostovski ( NMSA ) ; 3♂ Cathedral Peak , Didima , 28°57.000'S 29°14.395'E , 1422 m , 14–16.xii.2005 , M.B. Mostovski ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Cedara College , 8.viii.1976 , R.M. Miller ( SANC ) ; 1♂ Drakensberg Garden Caravan Park , 29°45'S 29°15'E , ca. 1750 m , On Cassine flowers, 6–11.i.1988 , J.G.H. Londt ( NMSA ) ; 2♂ Giant’s Castle , 29°15.955'S 29°31.228'E , 1710 m , 8–10.xii.2004 , M.B. Mostovski ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Injasuti Nature Reserve , 29°12'S 29°11'E , 1500 m , 25.iii.1994 , J.G.H. Londt ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Karkloof , 8.i.1957 , B.R. Stuckenberg & P. Stuckenberg ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Lions Bush , Nottingham , 9.xiii.1954, B.R. Stuckenberg ( NMSA ) ; 3♂ Louwsberg , iGwala Gwala , 27°34'S 31°17.9'E , 1090 m , 2–3.vi.2005 , M.B. Mostovski , YPT [ yellow pan trap ] ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Midlands , Howick , 29°29'S 30°13'E , 1060 m , Streamside vegetation, 10.viii.1991 , A.E. Whittington ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Newcastle , xii.1952 ( NHMUK ) ; 1♂ Pongola Bush Nature Reserve , 27°21'S 30°26'E , Indigenous forest , 18.i.1995 , B.R. Stuckenberg ( NMSA ) ; 2♂ Royal Natal Nat. Res [National Park], 28°41.4'S 28°56.3'E , 1420 m , 8–12.xii.2005 , M.B. Mostovski , Sweeping ( NMSA ) ; 7♂ Royal Natal National Park , 28°41.362'S 28°56.327'E , 1425 m , stream, y-wood, 10–13.xii.2004 , M.B. Mostovski , Malaise trap ( NMSA ) ; 1♂ Royal Natal National Park , 1500 m , 13.ix.1963 , B.R. Stuckenberg & P. Stuckenberg ( NMSA ) ; 10♂ Royal Natal National Park , Thendele , 28°42.378'S 28°56.083'E , 1600 m , Leucosedes [ Leucosidea ] dominated scrub, 15–17.ii.2010 , A.H. Kirk-Spriggs , Malaise trap ( BMSA (D) 19754, 19714, 19832, 19724, 19725, 19722, 19709, 19765, 19594, 19726) ; 1♂ Royal Natal National Park , Tugela Valley , 5.iv.1951 , Brinck & Rudebeck , insect trap ( MZLU ) ; Limpopo : 1♂ Nylsvley [Nature] Reserve , Naboomspruit , 28.iii.1979 , P. Ferrar ( NHMUK ) . Distribution: Botswana (new), Burundi , Cameroon , Ethiopia , Kenya , Malawi (new), Nigeria , Rwanda , South Africa (new), Uganda .