A review of the Afrotropical Thinophilus Wahlberg, 1844 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with the descriptions of ten new species
Author
Grichanov, Igor Ya.
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Podbelskogo 3, St Petersburg, Pushkin, 196608, Russia.
grichanov@mail.ru
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-07-03
878
1
52
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Thinophilus aquaticus
Becker, 1914
Thinophilus aquaticus
Becker, 1914: 125
.
Type
locality:
Kenya
, Tiwi.
Fig. 2.
Thinophilus calopus
Loew, 1852
, ♂ (ZMUM).
A
. Habitus.
B
. Head.
C
. Hind femur.
D
. Wing.
E
. Last segments of abdomen and hypopygium, dry, lateral view.
Notes
The species is known by
two female
types
from
Kenya
. Only one indeterminable female from
Madagascar
was found in the RMCA collection under the label “
Thinophilus aquaticus
, det. Vanschuytbroeck”. The record from
Madagascar
(
Vanschuytbroeck 1957
) is most probably a misidentification.
Distribution
Kenya
.