New species and new records of Mydidae from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Insecta, Diptera, Asiloidea)
Author
Dikow, Torsten
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ZooKeys
2010
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.64.464
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.64.464
1313-2970-64-33
Syllegomydas Notobates Hesse, 1969
Hesse (1969: 274)
described the subgenus
Notobates
to accommodate two species,
Syllegomydas arnoldi
Bequaert, 1938 and
Syllegomydas rhodesiensis
Bequaert, 1938, from Mozambique and Zimbabwe and provided a key to the species. He did not place
Syllegomydas dispar
(Loew, 1852), also from Mozambique, in this subgenus, because he had not studied specimens of this species. Having studied the
type
specimens of
Syllegomydas dispar
at the
ZMHB
as well as additional specimens from several collections, it becomes clear that this species should also be placed in
Syllegomydas (Notobates)
based, for example, on the undulating vein A1 and the long antennae (longer than scutum). Both
Hesse (1969: 295)
and
Bowden (1980: 333)
listed
Syllegomydas dispar
as
Syllegomydini
incertae sedis. Therefore, this species is here re-described and illustrated to allow identification in the future.