A new subfamily of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) for Tenuopus Curran, 1924 with description of new species from Tropical Africa
Author
Grichanov, I. Ya.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2018
2018-08-06
365
1
25
http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.365.1
journal article
10.25221/fee.365.1
2713-2196
7164252
02387D27-9229-448B-9727-2C240AB4F04E
Tenuopus cognatus
Parent, 1934
Figs 23–25
MATERIAL
EXAMINED.
1♂
,
RSA
: KZN,
Royal Natal Nature Park
,
Mahai
Campsite are at:
28°41.386'S
,
28°56.288'E
,
17–18.II 2010
, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs /
Malaise trap (1), straddling Mahai River [
BMSA
];
1♀
,
RSA
,
[
Eastern Cape
,]
Tsitsikamma N.P., Plaatbos Nat. reserve at:
39°56.137'S
,
23°54.895'E
, 20–22.I
2009, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & S. Otto / malaise trap, indigenous forest [
BMSA
].
DISTRIBUTION.
Type
locality:
South Africa
: Natal, Kloof.
South Africa
.
NOTES. The species was originally illustrated with a line drawing of wing only.
I publish here pictures of the male head and hypopygium for the first time.
Tenuopus cognatus
is remarkable in having long male cerci clinging close to each other and forming a flat tongue (dorsal view).