A revision of the Afrotropical species of Pachylophus Loew (Diptera: Chloropidae) and some related Ovoviviparous genera
Author
Deeming, John C.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-17
4482
1
1
51
journal article
29184
10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.1
72a80b13-e18f-4dc3-bec2-bb20d17f0e5f
1175-5326
1454415
79FECD6E-5192-45C3-9B46-4E6817366F64
Pachylophus beckeri
Curran, 1928
(
Plate 8
, Figs 32, 33)
Pachylophus beckeri
Curran, 1928
: 345
Described from
Zaire
and further reported from
Nigeria
,
North
Cameroun
,
Senegal
,
Sierra Leone
, the
Ivory
Coast
and
Zimbabwe
. The immature stages were described by
Deeming (1974: 155–157)
, who reported the hostplants to be cultivated rice and wild rice (
Oryza barthii
).
Moyal (1982: 295–305)
recorded the damage by this species to the rice crop in the
Ivory
Coast
and (
loc. cit.
p.297–298) reported the species to reproduce by ovovivipary.
Material
:
1♂
, with puparium N.
NIGERIA
: Zaria, Samaru, em
12.ii.1973
ex shoot
Oryza barthii
coll
.
25.i.1973
,
J.C. Deeming
;
1♂
, same data but em
.
14.ii.1973
;
3♂
1♀
,
Niger
State,
Badeggi
, on rice, 1981,
J.C. Ene
;
2♂
1♀
Bauchi
, pond with
Oryza barthii
,
1–12.iv.1990
,
J.C. Deeming
;
11♂
10♀
, same data but
1–7.iii.1997
;
1♂
1♀
,
CAMEROUN
:
Garoua
,
x.1954
, "
Borer du Riz
";
2♀
,
Djibelor
,
IRAT
,
Riz
,
8.ii.1977
,
Diedhiov
rec. (all in
MNHN
);
1♂
,
IVORY
COAST
:
Korhogo
, em
.
x.1980
ex rice shoot (rice variety
Bouaké
189),
P. Moyal
;
1♂
1♀
, same data but em
.
30.iv.1980
ex rice shoot (rice variety IRS);
1♂
,
GAMBIA
:
Bansang
, swept from rice
,
17.xi.1974
, (collector unrecorded) (all in
NMWC
);
1♂
2♀
,
W. Div.
,
Lamin Bridge
, vegetation bordering rice field
,
2.ix.1997
,
D.J. Mann
;
1♂
,
Upper
River
Div., Tomana Distr.,
Jiroba Kunda
, on young rice
,
26.viii.1997
,
D.J. Mann
;
1♀
,
Central
River
Div., Wassu Rice Dem. &
Prom
.
Centre
, on young rice,
24.viii.1997
,
D.J. Mann
(all in
OUM
);
9♂
4♀
, W.
Div.
,
Kombo Distr.
,
Lamin Bridge
, rice field near
Lamin Bolan
, tidal waterway, on young rice,
2.ix.1997
,
D.J. Mann
(
NMWC
,
OUM
,
ZSM
&
MAFY
);
1♂
1♀
,
SENEGAL
:
Dakar
,
vii.1937
, L. Berland;
4♂
1♀
,
MALI
:
Kogoni
,
27.vi.1994
,
H. Abdoulaye
(
Irrig. Rice Project
)
;
1♀
,
KENYA
:
Kisumu
, c.
1000m
, rice plot in marshland,
27.x.2004
,
M.R. Wilson
(
NMWC
); 5 ex
.
same data;
1♀
,
ANGOLA
: 3 mls. N. of
Santa Comba
,
7.iii.1972
,
BMSAE
(all in
NHMUK
).