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(in key), fig.
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(
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Redescription: Based on
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.
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: Antenna: Dark red-brown, fine silver pruinose, black setose; segmental formula 1.0:0.9:3.3:0.5:1.6. Face black, entirely silver-gold pruinose, mystax black covering about 70% of face (setae absent dorsally). Face width:head width ratio 1.0:4.5. Frons and vertex dark red-brown, entirely red-gold pruinose, long dark red-brown setose. Occiput dark red-brown, silver pruinose, white setose (few dark red-brown dorsally). Proboscis red-brown, white setose. Palpi orange-brown,
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1 white,
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2 red-brown setose.
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: Mesonotum black postpronotal and postalar lobes brown-orange, red-gold pruinose with apruinose postpronotal lobes, medial stripes and mediolateral spots. Setation:
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fine long dark red-brown;
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fine long dark red-brown;
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2 moderate dark red-brown;
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1 long thin dark red-brown;
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fine long dark red-brown. Scutellum black, largely shiny apruinose tiny gold pruinose area anterolaterally, disc asetose, margin with 5 thin dark red-brown setae. Pleura brown-orange, entirely goldsilver pruinose except for small apruinose spot on katepisternum, sparse pale yellow setose except for long thin dark red-brown katatergals. Wing 5.1 x
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, membrane slightly yellow-brown, microtrichia red-brown, covering entire membrane, basal angle of r
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13°. Halter pale brown with brown-rimmed white knob. Legs:
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brown-orange, silver pruinose, white setose; trochanters brown-orange;
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brown-orange,
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1 brown-orange with dark red-brown ventrally,
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2 dark red-brown with brown-orange dorsally and apically, fine white setose;
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brown-orange (
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12), red-brown (
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3), macrosetae black, setae fine yellow;
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brown-orange, macrosetae black, setae black and yellow.
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: Terga dark red-brown with brown-orange posterolateral parts, shiny apruinose except for narrow silver lateral margins, small fine dark red-brown setose dorsally longer white setose laterally. Sterna brown-orange, entirely gold pruinose, long fine white setose. Genitalia:
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ơ illustrated (
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): Hypopygium unrotated;
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(in dorsal view) deeply incised to form basally fused acutely pointed lobes;
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externally distally unilobed and projecting (in lateral view) beyond level attained by either
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or
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;
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(in lateral view) moderately long and projecting distally beyond level attained by
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, tapering rapidly (in ventral view) to trifurcate medial process where central element is elongate and distally slightly club-shaped.
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Type specimens (seen):
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: ơ
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, 1^
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(
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) Small bush, forest edge. / Eshowe [2853S 3128E] Zululand. / Coll: (B. DeM). [Botha de Meillon] / 9.6.37. Coll: 1660,
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/
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<emphasis id="75CAEAE7FFDCFFCCEB35FA60FE34E5B7" box="[334,408,1475,1495]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">meilloni</emphasis>
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/ det. H. Oldroyd 1972 / HOLOTYPE (BMNH).
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<paragraph id="470136F5FFDCFFCCEACEFA78FE4AE67F" blockId="17.[181,1143,206,1678]" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">
Note: It is interesting to note that even after carefully drawing attention to the importance of a metacoxal bridge in defining
<taxonomicName id="80BE4D76FFDCFFCCEB16FA50FD39E667" authority=", Oldroyd (1974)" authorityName=", Oldroyd" authorityYear="1974" box="[365,661,1523,1543]" class="Insecta" family="Asilidae" genus="Rhabdogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="220" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="75CAEAE7FFDCFFCCEB16FA50FE5CE667" box="[365,496,1523,1543]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">Rhabdogaster</emphasis>
,
<bibRefCitation id="232F4B04FFDCFFCCEB84FA50FD39E667" author="OLDROYD, H." box="[511,661,1523,1543]" pageId="17" pageNumber="220" pagination="1 - 171" refId="ref30391" refString="OLDROYD, H. 1974. An introduction to the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of southern Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 22 (1): 1 - 171." type="journal article" year="1974">Oldroyd (1974)</bibRefCitation>
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misplaced this species which clearly possesses a membranous postmetacoxal area.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="470136F5FFDCFFCCEACEF98EFC2CE606" blockId="17.[181,1143,206,1678]" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">
Distribution (Table 1), phenology (Table 2) and biology: Known only from the
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locality in
<collectingRegion id="857AF817FFDCFFCCEB56F9EEFE71E606" box="[301,477,1613,1638]" country="South Africa" name="KwaZulu-Natal" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">KwaZulu-Natal</collectingRegion>
(
<figureCitation id="DF852A70FFDCFFCCEB97F9EEFDECE606" box="[492,576,1613,1638]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="48.[144,177,859,879]" captionTargetBox="[235,1000,195,844]" captionTargetId="figure-9@48.[235,1000,195,844]" captionTargetPageId="48" captionText="Fig. 79. Southern African distribution of Afroholopogon Londt, 1994 species: argos closed circle, mauros open circle, meilloni closed square, melas open square, peregrinus closed triangle." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7666884" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7666884/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">Fig. 79</figureCitation>
), and collected only in June.
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<paragraph id="470136F5FFDCFFCCEACEF9D6FD35E6EE" blockId="17.[181,1143,206,1678]" box="[181,665,1653,1678]" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">
Similar species:
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<emphasis id="75CAEAE7FFDCFFCCEB15F9D6FE74E6ED" box="[366,472,1653,1677]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="220">A. vumba</emphasis>
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(see discussion).
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