On Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae) with the revision of the type specimens deposited in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin (Germany) with a key to species Author de Sousa, Viviane Rodrigues Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristovao, Rio de Janeiro, 20.940 - 040, RJ, Brazil sousavrodrigues@gmail.com Author Pereira, Andre Fontinelle Magalhaes Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristovao, Rio de Janeiro, 20.940 - 040, RJ, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1324-8788 Author Couri, Marcia Souto Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristovao, Rio de Janeiro, 20.940 - 040, RJ, Brazil & Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico fellow, Brazil text ZooKeys 2020 926 73 80 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeysw.926.49210 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeysw.926.49210 1313-2970-926-73 B8716F7E70B0440A85080111DC5AE564 E663CE6111415B21BE57066149C20670 Aethiopomyia arguta (Karsch, 1879) Figures 1-5 , 20 Lectotype. ♂; paralectotype ♂ (see Pont and Werner 2006 : 23-24 for details) Diagnosis. Length of body . 11.0-12.0 mm (♂). Head . ♂ frons narrow, with the same width of frontal triangle. Frons and fronto-orbital plate dark brown. Parafacial, face and gena reddish yellow. Ocellar setae short. Gena very thin. Pedicel, postpedicel and arista yellow. Postpedicel ca. 4 x as long as wide. Arista long; plumose. Palpus brown, filiform. Thorax . Scutum reddish yellow-brown, with 1-3 incomplete brown white dusted vittae presuturally. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Katepisternals 1+2. Anepimeron setulose. Katatergite setulose. Lower calypter broad, ca. 3 x as long as the upper one. Haltere yellow. Calypters yellowish. Legs . Femora yellow; tibiae and tarsi brown. Fore tibia without median seta. Mid tibia with two posterior setae in middle third. ♂. Hind tibia with two anterodorsal and two or three anteroventral very fine setae. Pulvilli long and very enlarged (Fig. 4 ). Wing . Uniformly smoky yellowish. Costal spine not distinct. Abdomen . Robust, reddish brown; tergites III-V with a median brown vitta; tergite IV brown laterally and tergite V broadly brown. Rows of strong setae on margins of tergites IV and V and on disc of tergite V. Abdominal sternites with thin setae. Sternite 6 asymmetrical. Terminalia . Aedeagus as in Fig. 20 . Note. The species was keyed by Zumpt (1969) . Cercal plate and surstylus as in Zumpt (1969 : fig. 3). We present complementary drawings of the terminalia, that are in the same slide prepared by Zumpt (1969) . Figures 1-19. 1-5 Aethiopomyia arguta (Karsch, 1879) lectotype ♂ of Aricia arguta Karsch: 1 lateral view 2 dorsal view 3 head frontal view 4 pulvilli 5 labels 6-10 Aethiopomyia gigas (Stein, 1906) syntype ♂: 6 lateral view 7 dorsal view 8 head frontal view 9 pulvilli 10 labels 11-14 Aethiopomyia patersoni Zumpt, 1969 Paratype ♀: 11 lateral view; 12 dorsal view 13 head frontal view 14 labels 15-19 Aethiopomyia williamsi (Snyder, 1951) ♀ of Lophomala anax Enderlein, 1927, nomen nudum: 15 lateral view 16 dorsal view 17 head frontal view 18 wing 19 labels. Scale bars: 5 mm ( 1-3, 5, 6-8, 10-19 ); 1 mm ( 4, 9 ).