A review of the assassin-fly genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 with the description of a new species (Insecta, Diptera, Asilidae) Author Dikow, Torsten https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909 Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10 th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA dikowt@si.edu Author Dubus, Meliah Front Range Community College, Denver, Colorado, USA text African Invertebrates 2023 2023-05-05 64 2 165 206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.104283 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.104283 2305-2562-2-165 238328039A79416EBF0D7462CEC2A862 BCE941E87E045542A3EABDFBCB0A750E Anypodetus phalaros Londt, 2000 Figs 46-48 , 52 Taxon depository. ZooBank: https://zoobank.org/C3B681A5-8D4C-4B27-8F74-6948971007E7; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/1664907; Plazi TreatmentBank: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B39D2F-F047-9D42-FF58-FDC4D9C946C7; iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/650537-Anypodetus-phalaros. Diagnosis. The species is distinguished from congeners by the unique mystax with regular brown setae medially and white, dorso-ventrally flattened setae laterally in both males and females. Figures 46-48. A. phalaros 46 ♂ holotype (NMSA-DIP-073587), lateral 47 same, dorsal 48 same, head anterior. Photographs by NMSA staff, copyright KwaZulu-Natal Museum. Type locality. South Africa: Limpopo: Louis Trichardt, 37 km N, Limpopo Valley ( 22°35'31"S , 029°54'24"E , -22.59194 , 29.90667 ). Material examined. Namibia - Karas • 1♀ Brucharos (= Brukkaros); 25°52'00"S , 017°48'00"E ; 06 Mar. 1972 ; Brown, H. , Koster, E. , Wessels, D. leg.; Paratype , SANC . South Africa - Limpopo • 1♂ Louis Trichardt, 37 km N , Limpopo Valley ; 22°35'31"S , 029°54'24"E ; Jan. 1975 ; Stuckenberg , Brian leg.; arid bushveld; NAMS-DIP-073587, Holotype , NMSA • 1♀ same data; NMSA-DIP-009034, Paratype , NMSA . Distribution, biodiversity hotspots, seasonal imago flight activity, and biology. Known only from north-eastern South Africa, southern Botswana, and south-central Namibia (Fig. 52 ). A rarely observed and collected species known from three specimens from three collecting events between 1972-1975 and a single observation at iNaturalist in 2015 (Table 2 ). The species is not known to occur in any currently recognized biodiversity hotspot. Adult flies are active in summer (January and March) (Table 3 ). The iNaturalist observation (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11107350) indicates that this species perches on the ground. Other than that, nothing is known of the biology.