New species of Condylostylus Bigot (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Comoros Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa, with key to Afrotropical species
Author
Grichanov, Igor Ya.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-08-12
4830
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62
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journal article
8740
10.11646/zootaxa.4830.1.2
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Condylostylus beckeri
Speiser
Condylostylus beckeri
Speiser, 1920: 218
.
Type
locality:
Cameroon
: Dschang.
Condylostylus congensis
Curran, 1927: 263
,
syn. nov.
Type
locality: Congo-Brazzaville, Mayumbe Lemba.
Condylostylus imitans
Parent, 1935: 117
,
nec
Curran, 1925
(misidentification).
Material examined.
Cameroon
:
1♂
,
3♀
, Northwest Reg.,
Mezam
,
Bafut village
at:
6°05.026ʹN
,
10°07.442ʹE
,
1060 m
,
Malaise trap
, cultivated plot & degraded forest,
17–19.viii.2013
,
A.H. Kirk-Spriggs
(
BMSA
)
.
Ethiopia
:
1♂
,
1♀
,
Amhara
,
Blue Nile
,
1070 m
,
10.08°N
,
38.19°E
,
31.vii.2012
,
N. Vikhrev
(
ZMUM
)
.
Kenya
:
2♂
,
Kikuyu
env.,
Ondiri
wetland,
1.253417°S
,
36.6641°E
,
2011 m
,
15.xi.2012
,
D. Gavryusin
(
ZMUM
)
.
Remarks.
New material collected from the Mezam Department of
Cameroon
, which is very close (about
70 km
) to the type locality of
C. beckeri
(Dschang city), stimulated the re-examination of the description of this species (
Speiser 1920
). As it turned out, Speiser incorrectly described the fore leg of his species;
i.e
., he named the modified basitarsus as tibia, and the simple tarsomere 2 as the basitarsus. In all other respects,
C. beckeri
male is identical with the
holotype
of
C. congensis
(examined; see
Grichanov 1998
,
1999
). Therefore, the latter species is placed in synonymy with the former species. No differences in the male genitalia of
C. beckeri
collected from
Cameroon
,
Ethiopia
and
Kenya
were found. Nevertheless, wing venation is distinctly different. Vein M
1
is straight, forming an almost straight line with M
2
in
the material from
Cameroon
; M
1
is slightly curved, forming distinct angle with M
2
in
the material from
Ethiopia
(like those veins in
Fig. 3E
); and M
1
has proximal stump vein in middle, also forming distinct angle with M
2
in
the material from
Kenya
. These characters may indicate cryptic species, but at this time they are considered as intraspecific variation, which is sometimes found in other species of
Sciapodinae
.
Distribution.
Burundi
,
Cameroon
,
DR Congo
,
Republic of the Congo
,
Ethiopia
,
Gabon
,
Kenya
,
Rwanda
,
South Africa
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
.