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 ).