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<mods:title>A revision of Afrotropical Astochia Becker, 1913 with descriptions of three new species (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilini)</mods:title>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="159690894" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E985A78D-1A94-496D-8F1B-EA1A1C5C847A" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/919D65214FE650B6BC0737FEEEC172A9" lastPageNumber="221" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<taxonomicName LSID="919D6521-4FE6-50B6-BC07-37FEEEC172A9" class="Insecta" family="Asilidae" genus="Astochia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Astochia lumarius" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lumarius">Astochia lumarius</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="6" pageNumber="221">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 7. A. lumarius sp. nov. holotype wing." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346338" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure7">Figs 7</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8, 9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8, 9. Astochia lumarius sp. nov. holotype male terminalia: 8 lateral 9 dorsal. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346339" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9">8-9</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 26" captionStartId="F15" captionText="Figure 26. Distribution of Astochia species: A. lumarius sp. nov., A. silva sp. nov., similis sp. nov., A. sodalis, A. strachani." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346350" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26">26</figureCitation>
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="221" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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L.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">luma</emphasis>
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f. thorn,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">lumarius</emphasis>
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- of thorns. Named after the thorny projections found on the male epandrium.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="221" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Based mainly on holotype, in reasonable condition although greasy (therefore masking pruinescence), with notes on the somewhat teneral female paratype, with paler coloration and slightly buckled wings.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Head:</emphasis>
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Dark red-brown to black, black and white setose. Antenna dark red-brown to black, scape and pedicel black setose, postpedicel slightly laterally compressed. Relative lengths of segments (scape as 1) scape 1, pedicel 0.54, postpedicel 1.25, style 2.00 (0.18: 1.71: 0.11 - composed of a short basal element followed by a long, thin, stylus tipped with a tiny seta-like sensory element). Face black, ventral 2/3 protuberant. Mystax mainly black with some white macrosetae along epistomal margin, confined to protuberance. Frons black. Vertex black, strongly concave. Ocellar tubercle with
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">c.</emphasis>
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10 weak to moderately developed ocellar macrosetae. Occiput black (dorsally and along dorsal eye margins) and fine white (ventrally) setose. Palps black, one-segmented, black (distally) and white (proximally) setose. Proboscis dark red-brown to black, straight, white setose.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Thorax:</emphasis>
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Dark red-brown to black, black and white setose. Antepronotum dark red-brown, black and white setose. Mesonotum black, postpronotal lobe orange-brown, entirely black setose except for some white setae on postpronotal lobe. Lateral macrosetae black (2 notopleurals, 2 supra-alars, 2 postalars). Scutellum dark red-brown to black, with 3 black apical scutellar macrosetae, disc fine white setose. Pleura dark red-brown to black, fine black and white setose. Katatergal setae moderately well developed, black. Anatergites fine white setose. Postmetacoxal area membranous.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Legs:</emphasis>
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Orange-brown except for anterior faces of femora which are black. Coxae mostly fine white setose. Trochanters weakly black and white setose. Femora with macrosetae black, minor setae white. Tibiae and tarsi entirely black setose. Claws, pulvilli and empodia well developed.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Wings</emphasis>
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 7. A. lumarius sp. nov. holotype wing." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346338" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure7">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
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) Length 10.7 mm (humeral crossvein to tip)
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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breadth 3.5 mm (maximum). Veins dark redbrown to black, membrane transparent, marginally microtrichose, centrally lacking microtrichia, cells
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">m</emphasis>
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3 and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">cua</emphasis>
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closed and stalked.
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<caption doi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346338" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" start="Figure 7" startId="F4">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Figure 7.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName genus="A." lsidName="A. lumarius" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" rank="species" species="lumarius">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">A. lumarius</emphasis>
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sp.nov. holotype wing.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Abdomen:</emphasis>
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Dark red-brown to black, white setose except for terminalia which are mostly black setose.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Male terminalia</emphasis>
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8, 9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8, 9. Astochia lumarius sp. nov. holotype male terminalia: 8 lateral 9 dorsal. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346339" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9">Figs 8</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8, 9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8, 9. Astochia lumarius sp. nov. holotype male terminalia: 8 lateral 9 dorsal. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346339" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9">9</figureCitation>
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): Unrotated. S8 with posterior region slightly protruding distally and equipped with long black setae distally (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8, 9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8, 9. Astochia lumarius sp. nov. holotype male terminalia: 8 lateral 9 dorsal. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346339" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
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). Epandrium subcircular in lateral view, only slightly longer than high, left and right lobes narrowly joined proximally, with a complex arrangement of dorsally situated thorny processes opposing each other at midlength, best observed in dorsal view (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8, 9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8, 9. Astochia lumarius sp. nov. holotype male terminalia: 8 lateral 9 dorsal. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346339" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
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). Hypandrium relatively small, without obvious lobes. Gonocoxite well-developed, subtriangular in lateral view. Gonostylus moderately developed, slightly dorsally upturned distally. Aedeagus long, terminating in slender filaments.
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<caption doi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures8-9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346339" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" start="Figures 8, 9" startId="F5">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Figures 8, 9.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Asilidae" genus="Astochia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Astochia lumarius" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lumarius">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Astochia lumarius</emphasis>
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sp. nov. holotype male terminalia:
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">8</emphasis>
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lateral
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">9</emphasis>
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dorsal. Scale bar: 1 mm.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Female</emphasis>
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: Similar to ♂ except for the following features. Head mainly orange-brown, strongly gold-silver pruinose. Antennal scape and pedicel orange. Thorax mainly orange-brown, gold-silver pruinose except for longitudinal dorsal bands, black setose. Antepronotum orange, mainly white setose. Scutellar disc with a few black setae amongst white ones. Anatergites black and white setose. Femora only slightly darker anteriorly. Tibiae with some minor setae white. Wing (slightly warped) 12.5
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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3.8 mm. Abdomen orange-brown. T1 entirely white setose, other tergites black and white microsetose. T1-5 dull gold pruinose, T6-9 apruinose and modified into a telescopic ovipositor.
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="221" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Holotype.</emphasis>
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Malawi: 1♂ 'Malawi Chimaliro / forest reserve [
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">c.</emphasis>
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<geoCoordinate degrees="12" direction="south" minutes="27" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-12.45">12°27'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="33" direction="east" minutes="33" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="33.55">33°33'E</geoCoordinate>
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] 1200m / 1233Bc Stuckenberg & / Londt 9.xii.1980 /
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Brachystegia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Brachystegia" order="Fabales" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Brachystegia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="woodland’">woodland'</normalizedToken>
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,
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(NMSA).
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Paratype</emphasis>
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: 1♀ 'M 4383 / Zomba Plateau [
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">c.</emphasis>
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<geoCoordinate degrees="15" direction="south" minutes="20" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-15.333333">15°20'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="35" direction="east" minutes="19" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="35.316666">35°19'E</geoCoordinate>
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1755m] / Malawi xi.13.73 / Coll. C.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Dudley’">Dudley'</normalizedToken>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘NMSA-DIP-14498’">'NMSA-DIP-14498'</normalizedToken>
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(NMSA).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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Note: The holotype specimen was previously assigned to
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<taxonomicName genus="A." lsidName="A. strachani" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" rank="species" species="strachani">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">A. strachani</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(see
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<bibRefCitation author="Londt, JGH" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the Natal Museum" pageId="19" pageNumber="234" pagination="241 - 251" refId="B11" refString="Londt, JGH, 1982. Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 7. The genus Astochia Becker, 1913 (Asilinae: Asilini). Annals of the Natal Museum 25: 241 - 251" title="Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 7. The genus Astochia Becker, 1913 (Asilinae: Asilini)." volume="25" year="1982">Londt 1982</bibRefCitation>
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), but on closer inspection has rather different genitalia and is now considered dispecific.
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="221" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Distribution, phenology and biology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="221">
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Known only from the Chimaliro Forest Reserve in Malawi (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 26" captionStartId="F15" captionText="Figure 26. Distribution of Astochia species: A. lumarius sp. nov., A. silva sp. nov., similis sp. nov., A. sodalis, A. strachani." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346350" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26">Fig. 26</figureCitation>
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). Collected in November and December (Table
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<tableCitation captionStartId="T1" httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/77ABE6B430CB8ADF8FCB922543B38124" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" tableUuid="77ABE6B430CB8ADF8FCB922543B38124">1</tableCitation>
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). Found associated with
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Brachystegia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Brachystegia" order="Fabales" pageId="6" pageNumber="221" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="221">Brachystegia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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woodland.
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