Revision of the Afrotropical species of Dohrniphora DAHL (Diptera: Phoridae)
Author
Disney, R. Henry L.
text
Zootaxa
2003
196
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156866
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156866
Dohrniphora diminuens
Schmitz
(
Fig. 8
)
Diploneura (Dohrniphora) diminuens
Schmitz, 1935
: 42
. (Female only).
Dohrniphora rhynchophora
Beyer, 1960: 414
. (Female only).
Borgmeier, 1971
. Male:
Disney & Kistner, 1989
: 76
.
This species was described from a single female, which has caused subsequent problems with the recognition of the species. Indeed
Beyer (1959a)
omitted it from his key and made no reference to it, despite his inclusion of three other species known from females only. I have remounted the
holotype
on a slide and can now confirm the identity of the termitophilous series reported from
Angola
in the nests of three genera of termites, including fungus growing species and the fungivorous habits of the larvae (
Disney & Kistner, 1989
).
Material
Holotype
female, SA,
Rhodesia
(
Zimbabwe
), Salisbury (Harare),
27 January 1935
, A Cuthbertson, ex termite nest 3993 (Natural History Museum, London
BMNH
(E) 249323).