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 griseiventris
van Emden, 1940
Fig. 13
Atherigona griseiventris
van Emden, 1940: 140
, figs 12, 38; Deeming 1979: 48.
Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others with similar infuscated palpi and frontal vitta by the shape of the median piece of the trifoliate process which is greatly dilated in profile up to just before the apex, and thin and linear in posterior view except for the apex, which appears almost round.
Type material examined:
Holotype
♂
KENYA
:
Aberdere Range
,
x.1934
,
B.M.E. Afr. Exp.
B.M. 1935-203,
Mt. Kinangop
,
8000ft
[
2438 m
],
F.W. Edwards.
Det. Emden
1939 (
NHMUK
).
Distribution:
Kenya
,
Nigeria
,
South Africa
,
Uganda
.