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
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Atherigona trapezia
van Emden, 1940
Fig. 66
Atherigona trapezia
van Emden, 1940: 135
, figs 4, 30, 48;
Deeming 1971: 171
, figs 108–110;
Deeming 1987: 20
.
Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others that also have Tergite 1+2 broadly infuscated by its wholly infuscated trifoliate process which is without inner lobes. The hypopygial prominence is stalked with lateral lobes.
Type material examined:
Holotype
♂
:
UGANDA
:
Kigezi Dist.
18.xi.1934
.
B.M.E. Afr. Exp.
B.M. 1935- 203,
Mabungo Camp
,
6000ft
[
1829 m
],
J. Ford
(
NHMUK
).
Other material examined:
ETHIOPIA
:
1♂
Alemaya
,
ix.1992
,
S. Gudeta
(
NMSA
)
.
SOUTH
AFRICA
:
KwaZuluNatal
:
1♂
Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve
, near
Umzinto
,
30°16'S
30°36'E
,
2–7.xi.2008
,
G.B.P. Davies
,
Sweep net
(
NMSA
)
;
1♂
Dhlinza Forest
,
Eshowe
,
Zululand
,
5–6.iv.1960
,
B.R. Stuckenberg
&
P. Stuckenberg
(
NMSA
)
.
Distribution:
Burundi
,
Cameroon
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Ethiopia
,
Kenya
,
Madagascar
,
Nigeria
,
Rwanda
,
South Africa
,
Sudan
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
,
Zimbabwe
.