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<taxonomicName ID-CoL="89YKJ" LSID="A559588B-E468-5A45-9667-C75B02D9E4F1" authority="Bezzi, 1915" authorityName="Bezzi" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Amphoterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amphoterus cribratus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cribratus">Amphoterus cribratus Bezzi, 1915</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 3–6" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 3 - 6. Amphoterus species, dorsal view 3 A. braunsi (♂) 4 A. braunsi (♀) 5 A. cribratus (♂) 6 A. londti sp. nov. (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.100481.figures3-6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/846532" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Figs 5</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 7–10" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figures 7 - 10. Amphoterus species, lateral view 7 A. braunsi (♂) 8 A. braunsi (♀) 9 A. cribratus (♂) 10 A. londti sp. nov. (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.100481.figures7-10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/846533" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">, 9</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 11–14" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 11 - 14. Amphoterus heads, frontal view 11 A. braunsi (♂) 12 A. braunsi (♀) 13 A. cribratus (♂) 14 A. londti sp. nov. (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.100481.figures11-14" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/846534" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">, 13</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 15–20" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 15 - 20. Amphoterus male genitalia 15 - 17 A. braunsi 15 apical view 16 ventral view 17 lateral view 18 - 20 A. cribratus 18 apical view 19 ventral view 20 lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.100481.figures15-20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/846535" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">, 18-20</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Bezzi" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Amphoterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amphoterus cribratus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cribratus">Amphoterus cribratus</taxonomicName>
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Bezzi, 1915: 117.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Bezzi" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Amphoterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amphoterus cribratus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cribratus">Amphoterus cribratus</taxonomicName>
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Bezzi -
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<bibRefCitation author="Brunetti, E" journalOrPublisher="Revue Zoologique Africaine" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" pagination="165 - 173" refId="B3" refString="Brunetti, E, 1926. Notes on some Belgian Congo Diptera. Revue Zoologique Africaine 13: 165 - 173" title="Notes on some Belgian Congo Diptera." volume="13" year="1926">Brunetti 1926</bibRefCitation>
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, 13: 166;
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<bibRefCitation author="Smith, KVG" editor="Crosskey, RW" journalOrPublisher="British Museum (Natural History), London" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" pagination="488 - 510" refId="B12" refString="Smith, KVG, Vockeroth, JR, 1980. Family Syrphidae. In: Crosskey, RW, Ed., Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: 488 - 510" title="Family Syrphidae." volumeTitle="Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region." year="1980">Smith and Vockeroth 1980</bibRefCitation>
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: 497;
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<bibRefCitation author="De Meyer, M" journalOrPublisher="National Museum of Kenya Centre for Biodiversity, Nairobi" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" refId="B5" refString="De Meyer, M, Berghe, EV, Whittington, AE, 1995. Specimen database: Syrphidae (Diptera) of East Africa. National Museum of Kenya Centre for Biodiversity, Nairobi" title="Specimen database: Syrphidae (Diptera) of East Africa." year="1995">De Meyer et al. 1995</bibRefCitation>
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: 7;
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<bibRefCitation author="Dirickx, HG" journalOrPublisher="Museum d'histoire naturelle Geneve, Geneve" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" refId="B6" refString="Dirickx, HG, 1998. Catalogue synonymique et geographique des Syrphidae (Diptera) de la region Afrotropicale. Museum d'histoire naturelle Geneve, Geneve" title="Catalogue synonymique et geographique des Syrphidae (Diptera) de la region Afrotropicale." year="1998">Dirickx 1998</bibRefCitation>
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: 5.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Bezzi" baseAuthorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Eumerus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eumerus cribratus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cribratus">Eumerus cribratus</taxonomicName>
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(van Doesburg) -
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<bibRefCitation author="Whittington, AE" journalOrPublisher="Studia Dipterologica" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" pagination="579 - 607" refId="B15" refString="Whittington, AE, 2003. The Afrotropical Syrphidae Fauna: An assessment. Studia Dipterologica 10: 579 - 607" title="The Afrotropical Syrphidae Fauna: An assessment." volume="10" year="2003">Whittington 2003</bibRefCitation>
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, 10: 592. [citation only]
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="2023-01-01" collectingDateMax="2023-12-31" collectingDateMin="2023-01-01" collectorName="T. J. Anderson" country="Kenya" location="Kenya" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" typeStatus="Holotype">
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; British East Africa;
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leg.; NHMUK 010861152.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Male</emphasis>
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: length 9.5 mm, wing: 8.2 mm.
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: Eyes broadly dichoptic. Face pale brown; yellowish white pilose; covered with dense yellow pollinosity. Gena pale brown; white pilose; with white pollinosity. Oral opening occupies about ⅓ of the distance between eyes. Frons reddish brown, with a short suture from the angle of the eye extending about ⅓ of the width of the frons, yellowish white pilose ventrally, darkening to pale brown dorsally; dense yellow pollinosity restricted to the area below the suture, though some sparse pollinosity may be present between the suture and the ocellar triangle. Ocellar triangle reddish brown; with sparse yellow to pale brown pilosity; lacking pollinosity. Ocellar triangle obtuse, posterior ocelli 1.25 times as far apart as the distance between anterior ocellus and posterior ocellus. Occiput reddish brown; pale brown pilose; sparsely yellowish white pollinose laterally, bare dorsally. Eye bare, facets of equal size across the eye. Scape short, reddish brown, with a few pale brown spines at the dorsoapical margin, lateroapical and ventroapical margins bare. Pedicel elongate, 1.25 times as long as postpedicel, 5 times as long as high, dark brown, covered in stout dark brown hairs, sparsely white pollinose. Postpedicel elongate, 2.8 times as long as high, dorsal and ventral margin almost parallel basally, widest at
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of length, dorsal margin sloping downwards in final
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and rounded ventroapically; dark brown; sparse white pollinose. Arista reddish brown.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Figures 7-10.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Amphoterus</emphasis>
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species, lateral view
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="A. braunsi" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="braunsi">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">A. braunsi</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">8</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="A. braunsi" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="braunsi">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">A. braunsi</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="A. cribratus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cribratus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">A. cribratus</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">10</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="A. londti" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="londti">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">A. londti</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (♀).
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Thorax</emphasis>
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: Scutum brown, punctate; postpronotum, the lateral part of the transverse suture and the postalar callus paler, brownish yellow; golden brown pilose, with longer, denser patches at the posterior margin between the postalar calli, and with longer pilosity on the postalar callus; with a horizontal vitta of sparse white pollinosity from the postpronotum to in line with the posterior corner of the eye and a horizontal vitta of sparse white pollinosity along the transverse suture and five vertical vittae of sparse white pollinosity, one medial and two mediolaterally reaching from the anterior margin of the scutum to
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of the distance to the suture and two laterally, between postpronotum and postalar calli. Scutellum with flattened apical rim, brown, yellow pilose, pilosity longer on rim. Posterior anepisternum, anterior anepimeron and dorsal katepisternum with golden pilosity. Katatergite with thin, fine golden pilosity. All lateral sclerites with white pollinosity, sparse on dorsal anepisternum. Metasternum with pale yellow pilosity.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Legs</emphasis>
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: Dark brown, except for the metafemur, which has some darker markings, and metatibia, which has a pale brown patch posteromedially; with pale yellow to white pilosity. Metafemur somewhat thickened medially, metatibia expanded apically, with a small groove venteromedially. Metabasitarsus large, as thick as metatibia and as long as other metatarsal segments combined.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Wing</emphasis>
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: grey infuscated in distal region, from subcostal anteriorly to branch of veins
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and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">R4+5</emphasis>
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, to crossvein
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">r-m</emphasis>
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to posterior margin of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">dm</emphasis>
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, hyaline basally. Cell
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open for about
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of its length. Vein
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">R2+3</emphasis>
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straight for most of its length, turning sharply upwards as it joins the wing margin. Vein
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">R4+5</emphasis>
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straight. Crossvein
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">r-m</emphasis>
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virtually straight. Vein
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">M1</emphasis>
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recessive, with two appendices projecting towards the wing margin. Cell
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with a single appendix at posterior corner. Spurious vein developed, though less than other veins. Wing microtrichose over most of the surface, bare only in posterobasal part of cell
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">br</emphasis>
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, basal part of cell
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">bm</emphasis>
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, anterobasal part of cell
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">cup</emphasis>
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and anterior part of alula. Allula 2.3 times as long as broad. Calypter yellowish white, with darker margin, with long white pilosity. Haltere stem brown basally, becoming lighter distally, knob yellow.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Abdomen</emphasis>
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: Punctate, brown, with pale yellow pilosity anteriorly, yellow orange pilosity on apex of final segment. T2 slightly trapezoidal, about 2.5 times as wide as long, with longer pilosity at anterior corners, anterolateral and dorsomedial sections raised somewhat, with grooves between these sections, with white pollinosity from the anterior margin to the grooves, posteromedial section without pollinosity. T3 parallel sided, about 4 times as wide as long, with shallower grooves than T2, with a transverse vitta of white pollinosity on the anterior margin and diagonal vittae of white pollinosity from the medial part of the transverse vitta to the margin of the tergite. T4 parallel sided anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, about as long as wide, evenly rounded dorsally, without grooves; with a transverse vitta of white pollinosity on the anterior margin and diagonal vittae of white pollinosity from the medial part of the transverse vitta to the margin of the tergite.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Genitalia</emphasis>
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: Hypandrium narrow in lateral view, cerci rounded (Figs
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Comments.</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation author="Bezzi, M" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" refId="B1" refString="Bezzi, M, 1915. The Syrphidae of the Ethiopian Region, British Museum (N.H.). London, 146 pp." title="The Syrphidae of the Ethiopian Region, British Museum (N. H.). London, 146 pp." year="1915">Bezzi (1915)</bibRefCitation>
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describes the integument as black, but the holotype has brown integument with black punctation. This may be degradation, as other specimens from this collection appear to have lightened similarly (e.g., the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="A. braunsi" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="braunsi">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">A. braunsi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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specimen from Katberg, South Africa), or may be an interpretation error due to the quality of historic microscopes and light sources. Integument colouration should be interpreted with care in
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Bezzi" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Amphoterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amphoterus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="149">Amphoterus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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. The female described by
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<bibRefCitation author="Brunetti, E" journalOrPublisher="Revue Zoologique Africaine" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" pagination="165 - 173" refId="B3" refString="Brunetti, E, 1926. Notes on some Belgian Congo Diptera. Revue Zoologique Africaine 13: 165 - 173" title="Notes on some Belgian Congo Diptera." volume="13" year="1926">Brunetti (1926)</bibRefCitation>
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and specimens mentioned in
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<bibRefCitation author="De Meyer, M" journalOrPublisher="National Museum of Kenya Centre for Biodiversity, Nairobi" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" refId="B5" refString="De Meyer, M, Berghe, EV, Whittington, AE, 1995. Specimen database: Syrphidae (Diptera) of East Africa. National Museum of Kenya Centre for Biodiversity, Nairobi" title="Specimen database: Syrphidae (Diptera) of East Africa." year="1995">De Meyer et al. (1995)</bibRefCitation>
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could not be located and are considered lost. The figure caption in
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<bibRefCitation author="Bezzi, M" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" refId="B1" refString="Bezzi, M, 1915. The Syrphidae of the Ethiopian Region, British Museum (N.H.). London, 146 pp." title="The Syrphidae of the Ethiopian Region, British Museum (N. H.). London, 146 pp." year="1915">Bezzi (1915)</bibRefCitation>
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refers to a female specimen, but the description is of a male, correctly referred to as such in the text. Likewise,
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<bibRefCitation author="Brunetti, E" journalOrPublisher="Revue Zoologique Africaine" pageId="0" pageNumber="149" pagination="165 - 173" refId="B3" refString="Brunetti, E, 1926. Notes on some Belgian Congo Diptera. Revue Zoologique Africaine 13: 165 - 173" title="Notes on some Belgian Congo Diptera." volume="13" year="1926">Brunetti (1926)</bibRefCitation>
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refers to the holotype in text as both female (line 16, page 166) and male (line 17, page 166). These are both likely typological errors.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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