Revision of the Old World Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae)
Author
Lonsdale, Owen
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-01-21
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journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3760.2.4
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Sobarocephala milangensis
Stuckenberg
Fig.
4
Sobarocephala milangensis
Stuckenberg,
1973
:
589
.
Redescription
(Fig.
4
).
Male.
Unknown.
Female.
Body length
4.5mm
. Arista densely plumose basally. Setae brown. Ocellar seta well-developed. Presutural intra-alar seta absent. Two dorsocentral setae. Acrostichal seta absent. One lateral scutellar seta. Head mostly yellow with thin dorsal stripe on first flagellomere, ocellar tubercle brown, and gena and parafacial white; gena silvery-tomentose. Thorax yellow with lateral
1
/
3
of scutum brown on posterior half, and anterolateral corner of scutellum and metanotum brown. Legs yellow with coxae light yellow and fore tibiae and tarsi light brown to brown. Halter entirely white. Wing lightly clouded (darker on distal
1
/
3
towards apex and in first radial cell). M
1
+
2
ratio
4.4
. Abdomen yellow with tergites
1–5
brown and cerci light brown.
Variation.
Female from
Tanzania
agrees with the
holotype
except as follows, and may not be conspecific: body length
4.3mm
; gena and occiput pilose; postsutural stripes reaching midpoint of presutural scutum; dorsal half of first flagellomere (excluding inner face) infuscated; wing clear; M
1
+
2
ratio
3.8
.
Holotype
:
MOÇAMBIQUE
.
Tumbine Mtn. Milange
(
16
°09’S
,
35
°
44
’E
),
Port East Africa
,
vi.
1957
,
B.&P. Stuckenberg
(
1
♀
,
NMSA
).
Additional material examined:
TANZANIA
.
Udzungwa Mts
.,
Mwanihana Forest above Sanje
,
1000m
,
1
.viii.
1982
,
M. Stoltze & N. Scharff
, “
Sobarocephala
nr-milangensis” (
1
♀
,
UMCZ
).
Comments.
Stuckenberg (
1973
)
noted than the
type
locality is “adjacent to the border with
Malawi
and the species is likely to occur in montane forest in that territory”.