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<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655DA4079CF1AC1D41DDB769" box="[669,744,1306,1332]" captionStart="Figs 5–6" captionStartId="18.[189,242,1910,1936]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,254,1853]" captionTargetId="figure-12@18.[189,1399,265,1853]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="Figs 5–6. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Habitus, lateral view. 5. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 6. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000037959)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914498" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914498/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">Figs 6</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655DA4079C99AC1D4020B769" box="[757,789,1306,1332]" captionStart="Figs 11–16" captionStartId="31.[189,242,1857,1883]" captionTargetBox="[216,1384,265,1815]" captionTargetId="figure-13@31.[203,1384,265,1815]" captionTargetPageId="31" captionText="Figs 11–16. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Head, lateral view. 11. M. hirsuta Hull, 1941, holotype, ♀ (ANSP ENT 142915 (6591)). 12. M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941, holotype, ♂ (ANSP ENT 142916 (6592)). 13. M. aperta (Bezzi, 1912), ♀ (RBINS, Eala, Aug. 1935, J. Ghesquière). 14. M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819), ♂ (NMSA DIP 211695). 15. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 16. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (RMCA ENT 000037957)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914504" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914504/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">16</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655DA4079D4DAC1D4074B769" box="[801,833,1306,1332]" captionStart="Figs 25–30" captionStartId="34.[189,242,1857,1883]" captionTargetBox="[202,1386,265,1819]" captionTargetId="figure-11@34.[202,1386,265,1819]" captionTargetPageId="34" captionText="Figs 25–30. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Metaleg, anterior view.25. M. hirsuta Hull, 1941, holotype, ♀ (ANSP ENT 142915 (6591)). 26. M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941, holotype, ♂ (ANSP ENT 142916 (6592)). 27. M. aperta (Bezzi, 1912), ♀ (RBINS, Eala, 5 Oct. 1936, J. Ghesquière). 28. M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819), ♀ (NMSA DIP 175981). 29. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 30. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000037959)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914512" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914512/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">30</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655DA4079D21AC1D4058B769" box="[845,877,1306,1332]" captionStart="Figs 40–42" captionStartId="37.[189,242,1901,1927]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,265,1853]" captionTargetId="figure-14@37.[189,1399,265,1853]" captionTargetPageId="37" captionText="Figs 40–42. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Right wing. 40. M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819), ♀ (RMCA ENT 000044379). 41. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 42. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (RMCA ENT 000037957)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914518" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914518/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">42</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655DA4079D15AC1D40A3B768" box="[889,918,1306,1333]" captionStart="Figs 51–54" captionStartId="41.[189,242,1905,1931]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,265,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-13@41.[189,1398,265,1851]" captionTargetPageId="41" captionText="Figs 51–54. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Abdomen, dorsal view. 51. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 52. M. hircus sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000037958). 53. M. aenigma Bezzi, 1912, ♀ (NMK/ICIPE 210). 54. M. extrema (Loew, 1858), ♂ (NMSA DIP 211609)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914528" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914528/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">52</figureCitation>
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<emphasis id="74E06010655DA4079ED1AC5C42FCB728" bold="true" box="[189,457,1371,1397]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">Differential diagnosis</emphasis>
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This species belongs to a group differentiated from other Afrotropical species of
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by the distinctly long pilose eyes, and dichoptic eyes in both sexes. It can be differentiated from all three other species in this group by the shorter black pilosity of the ocellar triangle. It differs furthermore from
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and
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by the presence of a tuft of long pile on the clypeus. It can be differentiated from
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by the strongly thickened metafemur (only moderately in
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<emphasis id="74E06010655DA4079A5BAF1347F6B470" box="[1079,1219,1556,1581]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">M. aenigma</emphasis>
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). In the female the frontal pilosity is distinctly shorter in
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compared to
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.
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It is the only species in
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with wing cell r 1 sometimes closed. If the latter, then a petiole is either absent, or very short and unlike what is seen in
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<emphasis id="74E06010655DA4079ED1AFBA4271B48A" bold="true" box="[189,324,1725,1751]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">Etymology</emphasis>
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The Latin word
<taxonomicName id="8194C781655DA4079F15AFEC42FEB559" authorityName="Meyer &amp; Goergen &amp; Midgley &amp; Jordaens" authorityYear="2024" box="[377,459,1770,1797]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Mallota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="263" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hircus">
‘
<emphasis id="74E06010655DA4079FEFAFED42FEB559" box="[387,459,1770,1796]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">hircus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
’ stands for a ‘billy-goat’ and is a reference to the hair or tuft of hairs sticking out from the clypeus (allusion to a goatee). The specific epithet should be treated as a noun in apposition.
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<emphasis id="74E06010655DA4079ED1AE494259B535" bold="true" box="[189,364,1870,1896]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">Type material</emphasis>
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<typeStatus id="992F02A0655DA4079E86AE7B4269B5CB" box="[234,348,1916,1942]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655DA4079ED1AE9841B0B581" blockId="21.[189,1399,1916,2012]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">
<materialsCitation id="F6FCB65F655DA4079ED1AE9841B0B581" collectingDate="1915-03" collectionCode="RMCA" collectorName="Lang &amp; Chapin" country="DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO" municipality="Kisangani" pageId="21" pageNumber="263" specimenCode="RMCA ENT 000037958" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" typeStatus="holotype">
<collectingCountry id="3E83FC92655DA4079ED1AE9841B0B5E4" box="[189,645,1951,1977]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO</collectingCountry>
•
<specimenCount id="5092778B655DA4079CC8AE984188B5E4" box="[676,701,1951,1977]" count="1" pageId="21" pageNumber="263" type="male">♂</specimenCount>
; Stanleyville [=
<collectingMunicipality id="A64F2678655DA4079DEBAE984730B5E4" box="[903,1029,1951,1977]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">Kisangani</collectingMunicipality>
];
<date id="322A9AC2655DA4079A76AE9847ADB5E7" box="[1050,1176,1951,1978]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263" value="1915-03">
<collectingDate id="226E632A655DA4079A76AE9847ADB5E7" box="[1050,1176,1951,1978]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263" value="1915-03">Mar. 1915</collectingDate>
</date>
;
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and
<collectorName id="EB61D9D4655DA4079B4EAE984642B5E4" box="[1314,1399,1951,1977]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">Chapin</collectorName>
leg.;
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,
<specimenCode id="16321479655DA4079F31AEC541B4B581" box="[349,641,1985,2012]" pageId="21" pageNumber="263">RMCA ENT 000037958</specimenCode>
.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
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<typeStatus id="992F02A0655EA4049E86A80E4252B37E" box="[234,359,265,291]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1A82B422BB3F2" blockId="22.[189,1398,265,431]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<materialsCitation id="F6FCB65F655EA4049ED1A82B4643B31B" box="[189,1398,299,326]" collectingDate="1915-03" collectionCode="RMCA" collectorName="Lang &amp; Chapin" country="DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" specimenCode="RMCA ENT 000037959" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCountry id="3E83FC92655EA4049ED1A82B4149B31B" box="[189,636,300,326]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO</collectingCountry>
•
<specimenCount id="5092778B655EA4049CFDA82B4188B31B" box="[657,701,300,326]" count="1" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
; same data as for holotype;
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,
<specimenCode id="16321479655EA4049A37A82B4643B31B" box="[1115,1398,299,326]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">RMCA ENT 000037959</specimenCode>
</materialsCitation>
•
<materialsCitation id="F6FCB65F655EA4049EBCA8484769B337" box="[208,1116,335,362]" collectingDate="1915-04" collectionCode="RMCA" collectorName="Lang &amp; Chapin" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" location="CONGO" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" specimenCode="RMCA ENT 000037957" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" typeStatus="paratype">
<specimenCount id="5092778B655EA4049EBCA84843CBB334" box="[208,254,335,361]" count="1" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
; same data as for holotype;
<date id="322A9AC2655EA4049C21A84841F2B337" box="[589,711,335,362]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" value="1915-04">
<collectingDate id="226E632A655EA4049C21A84841F2B337" box="[589,711,335,362]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" value="1915-04">Apr. 1915</collectingDate>
</date>
;
<collectionCode id="208524C7655EA4049CB8A8484018B334" box="[724,813,335,361]" collectionName="Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale" country="Belgium" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ee3x-fpgk" name="Royal Museum for Central Africa" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="Museum">RMCA</collectionCode>
,
<specimenCode id="16321479655EA4049D56A8484769B337" box="[826,1116,335,362]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">RMCA ENT 000037957</specimenCode>
</materialsCitation>
•
<materialsCitation id="F6FCB65F655EA4049A14A84842BFB3D1" collectingDate="1915-03" collectionCode="AMNH" collectorName="Lang &amp; Chapin" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" typeStatus="paratype">
<specimenCount id="5092778B655EA4049A14A848479DB334" box="[1144,1192,335,361]" count="1" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
; same data as for holotype;
<collectionCode id="208524C7655EA4049F5CA87542BFB3D1" box="[304,394,370,396]" collectionName="USA, New York, New York, American Museum of Natural History" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" name="American Museum of Natural History" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">AMNH</collectionCode>
</materialsCitation>
•
<materialsCitation id="F6FCB65F655EA4049FF2A875422EB3F2" collectingDate="1915-04-10" collectionCode="AMNH" collectorName="Lang &amp; Chapin" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" location="CONGO" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" specimenCount="2" specimenCount-female="1" specimenCount-male="1" typeStatus="paratype">
<specimenCount id="5092778B655EA4049FF2A87542FFB3D0" box="[414,458,370,397]" count="1" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount id="5092778B655EA4049FB9A8754135B3D0" box="[469,512,370,397]" count="1" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
; same data as for holotype;
<date id="322A9AC2655EA4049D52A87540E3B3D0" box="[830,982,370,397]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" value="1915-04-10">
<collectingDate id="226E632A655EA4049D52A87540E3B3D0" box="[830,982,370,397]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" value="1915-04-10">10 Apr. 1915</collectingDate>
</date>
; (one with ID label
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<emphasis id="74E06010655EA4049ADAA8744650B3D1" box="[1206,1381,370,396]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">M. pallidibasis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
);
<collectionCode id="208524C7655EA4049ED1A892422EB3F2" box="[189,283,405,431]" collectionName="USA, New York, New York, American Museum of Natural History" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" name="American Museum of Natural History" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">AMNH</collectionCode>
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="0E8EEF89655EA4049ED1A8D24797B598" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" type="description">
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1A8D24272B3B2" blockId="22.[189,327,469,495]" box="[189,327,469,495]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<heading id="1D630B6E655EA4049ED1A8D24272B3B2" bold="true" box="[189,327,469,495]" fontSize="11" level="3" pageId="22" pageNumber="264" reason="3">
<emphasis id="74E06010655EA4049ED1A8D24272B3B2" bold="true" box="[189,327,469,495]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Description</emphasis>
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Body length: 13.0–
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. Wing length: 10.2–11.0 mm.
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<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049E86AB434212B003" blockId="22.[187,1399,580,957]" box="[234,295,580,606]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<emphasis id="74E06010655EA4049E86AB434212B003" bold="true" box="[234,295,580,606]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Male</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1AB604186B1E0" blockId="22.[187,1399,580,957]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<smallCapsWord id="40CD2ADE655EA4049ED1AB6043C9B022" baselines="634,634" box="[189,252,615,641]" lowerCaseFontSize="8" mainFontSize="11" normCase="title" normString="Head" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">HEAD</smallCapsWord>
(
<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655EA4049F63AB604252B0DC" box="[271,359,615,641]" captionStart="Figs 21–24" captionStartId="33.[189,242,1857,1883]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,751,1804]" captionTargetId="figure-135@33.[189,1399,751,1804]" captionTargetPageId="33" captionText="Figs 21–24. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. 21–22. Detail face, anterolateral view. 21. M. aenigma Bezzi, 1912, ♀ (NMK/ICIPE 210). 22. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (NMSA DIP 48401). 23– 24. Scutellum, dorsolateral view. 23. M. aperta (Bezzi, 1912), ♂ (RBINS, Bolingo (rives Busira), 23 Jun. 1936, J. Ghesquière). 24. M. wyatti sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (ANHRTUK 282323)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914510" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914510/files/figure.png" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
). Eye with short to medium long whitish pile; narrowly dichoptic, separated by distance of at most equal to half the width of ocellus of ocellar triangle, ommatidia equal in size. Frons weakly protruding, in lateral view at most equal to facial tubercle, ground colour black, narrowly yellow along ventral margin; predominantly shining, only along eye margins more weakly pale brown pollinosity; with medium long pale brown pile. Ocellar triangle black; short to medium long black pilose. Face ground colour black, sometimes sublateral band from eye margin to oral margin more pale brown; with whitish pollinosity, facial tubercle and medial part ventral of tubercle non-pollinose; with dispersed medium long yellow pile along dorsolateral margins, otherwise bare; facial tubercle weakly pronounced. Clypeus with small tuft of long whitish pile or single long hair. Antennal segments black-brown; arista bare, brown; postpedicel longer than wide.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1AAE24102B6D1" blockId="22.[189,1400,997,1164]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<smallCapsWord id="40CD2ADE655EA4049ED1AAE2422CB1A0" baselines="1016,1016" box="[189,281,997,1023]" lowerCaseFontSize="8" mainFontSize="11" normCase="title" normString="Thorax" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">THORAX</smallCapsWord>
(
<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655EA4049F43AAE2424EB1A2" box="[303,379,997,1023]" captionStart="Figs 5–6" captionStartId="18.[189,242,1910,1936]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,254,1853]" captionTargetId="figure-12@18.[189,1399,265,1853]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="Figs 5–6. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Habitus, lateral view. 5. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 6. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000037959)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914498" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914498/files/figure.png" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
). Scutum subshining black; with brown pollinosity, with medium long pale brown pile; along anterior and posterior margin with more greyish pollinosity and pale yellow pile. Scutellum yellow-brown, paler than scutum; with long pale yellow pile; anteromedially with distinct black pile. Pleura ground colour black; posterior anepisternum, katepisternum and anterior anepimeron with long pale brown pile, otherwise bare.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1ADB34249B720" blockId="22.[187,1399,1203,1405]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<smallCapsWord id="40CD2ADE655EA4049ED1ADB343C3B691" baselines="1223,1223" box="[189,246,1204,1230]" lowerCaseFontSize="8" mainFontSize="11" normCase="title" normString="Legs" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">LEGS</smallCapsWord>
. Femora mainly black-brown, anteriorly more orange-brown; with short to long dense pale yellow pile except ventrally where short black pile. Metafemur (
<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655EA4049D02ADD140F3B6AD" box="[878,966,1238,1264]" captionStart="Figs 25–30" captionStartId="34.[189,242,1857,1883]" captionTargetBox="[202,1386,265,1819]" captionTargetId="figure-11@34.[202,1386,265,1819]" captionTargetPageId="34" captionText="Figs 25–30. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Metaleg, anterior view.25. M. hirsuta Hull, 1941, holotype, ♀ (ANSP ENT 142915 (6591)). 26. M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941, holotype, ♂ (ANSP ENT 142916 (6592)). 27. M. aperta (Bezzi, 1912), ♀ (RBINS, Eala, 5 Oct. 1936, J. Ghesquière). 28. M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819), ♀ (NMSA DIP 175981). 29. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 30. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000037959)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914512" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914512/files/figure.png" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Fig. 30</figureCitation>
) greatly thickened, in anterior view medial part about three times as broad as apex; medioventral part with very short pile. Pro- and mesotibia predominantly black; with short pale yellow pile; metatibia curved with apex not pointed, entirely dark brown; with short predominantly black pile, few pale yellow hairs. Tarsal segments orange-red; with short black pile.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1ACA24665B7BF" blockId="22.[189,1399,1445,1506]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<smallCapsWord id="40CD2ADE655EA4049ED1ACA243CBB7E0" baselines="1464,1464" box="[189,254,1445,1471]" lowerCaseFontSize="8" mainFontSize="11" normCase="title" normString="Wing" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">WING</smallCapsWord>
(
<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655EA4049F7DACA24259B7E2" box="[273,364,1445,1471]" captionStart="Figs 40–42" captionStartId="37.[189,242,1901,1927]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,265,1853]" captionTargetId="figure-14@37.[189,1399,265,1853]" captionTargetPageId="37" captionText="Figs 40–42. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Right wing. 40. M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819), ♀ (RMCA ENT 000044379). 41. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 42. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (RMCA ENT 000037957)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914518" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914518/files/figure.png" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Fig. 42</figureCitation>
). Largely hyaline; most areas microtrichose. Stigmal cross-vein present between distal end of vein Sc and middle of vein R 1. Sometimes cell r 1 closed. Vein R 4+5 sinuate, without appendix.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1AF0E470BB547" blockId="22.[189,1400,1545,1818]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<smallCapsWord id="40CD2ADE655EA4049ED1AF0E4219B47F" baselines="1564,1565" box="[189,300,1545,1571]" lowerCaseFontSize="8" mainFontSize="11" normCase="title" normString="Abdomen" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">ABDOMEN</smallCapsWord>
(
<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655EA4049F53AF0E42ADB479" box="[319,408,1545,1572]" captionStart="Figs 51–54" captionStartId="41.[189,242,1905,1931]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,265,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-13@41.[189,1398,265,1851]" captionTargetPageId="41" captionText="Figs 51–54. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Abdomen, dorsal view. 51. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 52. M. hircus sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (RMCA ENT 000037958). 53. M. aenigma Bezzi, 1912, ♀ (NMK/ICIPE 210). 54. M. extrema (Loew, 1858), ♂ (NMSA DIP 211609)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914528" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914528/files/figure.png" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Fig. 52</figureCitation>
). Mainly shining black; tergum 1 pale orange ground colour; white pollinose; with long white pile. Tergum 2 yellow-orange, anteromedially with triangular black macula, posterior fourth black-brown coloured, sometimes dark parts more extensive and yellow-orange fascia interrupted in middle; predominantly short whitish pile except along posterior part where black; tergum 3 along anterior margin broadly and posteriorly narrowly orange-brown; grey pollinose narrowly along anterior margin; with short whitish pile except in posterior fourth where black; tergum 4 predominantly black, posteriorly with narrow yellowish margin; with mixed black and whitish pile. Sterna pale yellow to red-brown, posteriorly sometimes darker; with very long, dispersed whitish pile.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049E86AE464270B506" blockId="22.[188,1398,1857,1989]" box="[234,325,1857,1883]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
<emphasis id="74E06010655EA4049E86AE464270B506" bold="true" box="[234,325,1857,1883]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Female</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655EA4049ED1AE634797B598" blockId="22.[188,1398,1857,1989]" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">
As male except frons subshining black dorsally of antennae, along eye margins with distinct whitish pollinosity, brown-black anterior of ocellar triangle over entire width; with intermixed short whitish and black pile (
<figureCitation id="DEAFA087655EA4049F53AEAC42A3B598" box="[319,406,1963,1989]" captionStart="Figs 11–16" captionStartId="31.[189,242,1857,1883]" captionTargetBox="[216,1384,265,1815]" captionTargetId="figure-13@31.[203,1384,265,1815]" captionTargetPageId="31" captionText="Figs 11–16. Species of Mallota Bezzi, 1822. Head, lateral view. 11. M. hirsuta Hull, 1941, holotype, ♀ (ANSP ENT 142915 (6591)). 12. M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941, holotype, ♂ (ANSP ENT 142916 (6592)). 13. M. aperta (Bezzi, 1912), ♀ (RBINS, Eala, Aug. 1935, J. Ghesquière). 14. M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819), ♂ (NMSA DIP 211695). 15. M. glabra sp. nov., paratype, ♂ (NMSA DIP 65015). 16. M. hircus sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (RMCA ENT 000037957)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13914504" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13914504/files/figure.png" pageId="22" pageNumber="264">Fig. 16</figureCitation>
), dorsally predominantly black; ocellar triangle short black pilose.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="0E8EEF89655FA4059ED1A80F4101B30C" box="[189,564,264,337]" pageId="23" pageNumber="265" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="462BBC02655FA4059ED1A80F4263B37F" blockId="23.[189,342,264,290]" box="[189,342,264,290]" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">
<heading id="1D630B6E655FA4059ED1A80F4263B37F" bold="true" box="[189,342,264,290]" fontSize="11" level="3" pageId="23" pageNumber="265" reason="3">
<emphasis id="74E06010655FA4059ED1A80F4263B37F" bold="true" box="[189,342,264,290]" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">Distribution</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="462BBC02655FA4059ED1A8304101B30C" blockId="23.[189,564,311,337]" box="[189,564,311,337]" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">
<collectingCountry id="3E83FC92655FA4059ED1A8304105B30C" box="[189,560,311,337]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">Democratic Republic of Congo</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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A series of specimens, collected during the Lang-Chapin Expedition to the
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, was initially identified by
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as
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<emphasis id="74E06010655FA4059D4FA8CD4727B3B9" box="[803,1042,458,484]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">Mallota pallidibasis</emphasis>
(
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)
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, and later on as
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<emphasis id="74E06010655FA4059ED2A8EA42B7B05A" box="[190,386,493,519]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">Mallota extrema</emphasis>
(
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)
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. However, comparison with the
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of
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<emphasis id="74E06010655FA4059A0AA8E947DBB05A" box="[1126,1262,494,519]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">M. extrema</emphasis>
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has shown that they do not belong to this species. The whereabouts of the type of
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<emphasis id="74E06010655FA4059D96AB16479FB076" box="[1018,1194,529,555]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">M. pallidibasis</emphasis>
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are unknown but this species is considered to belong to
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<emphasis id="74E06010655FA4059CE5AB3341D9B013" box="[649,748,564,590]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">Eristalis</emphasis>
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currently. Although
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makes reference to a swollen metafemur in
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<emphasis id="74E06010655FA4059FADAB50417FB02C" box="[449,586,599,625]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="265">pallidibasis</emphasis>
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, he also indicates that the eyes are barely villose or tomentose (“oculi sparce tomentosis” and “les yeux à peine villosules”), which seems to refer to the dense short pilosity one observes in some
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species
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and does not seem to correspond with the long dispersed pile observed in the type series of specimens. No DNA barcodes were obtained.
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