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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE4FFAAD3DDAF1D7B15FBE9" box="[181,350,1079,1099]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="72">Hylemyia modesta</emphasis>
Stein, 1914: 133
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; 1919: 151; Malloch 1924
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: 263, 265; Emden 1941
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: 268; 1956: 530;
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Stein described
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from 4
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and
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4 localities in
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. The important characters in his description of the male were:
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Gena 0.10.13 of eye height; thorax clear chocolate, matt, with 3 wide vittae which are a little darker but scarcely visible; prealar absent;
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very fine and very short, biserial; katepisternals 1+2; abdomen linear, very narrow and elongated, dorsoventrally compressed, dusted greyish chocolate; mid tibia with 1
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, 2
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, 2
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setae; hind femur with complete rows of long fine setae; squamae whitish yellow.
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Malloch (1924
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: 265) had not seen this species, but this did not deter him from including it in a key, using some of the characters mentioned in Steins description. Emden (1941
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: 268) also failed to recognise this species. He mentioned the lack of a prealar seta, and the narrow genae.
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Emden (1956: 530) mentioned a pair from Gatsibu (
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) which (in his opinion) fitted Steins description very well; he continued by listing several characters by which the male specimen from Gatsibu differed from Steins description:
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<paragraph id="8F4EC523FFE4FFAAD3DDAD1B7865F9E8" blockId="72.[181,1142,1079,1674]" box="[181,558,1585,1610]" pageId="72" pageNumber="72">Abdomen only depressed at base.</paragraph>
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Sternites IIIV with rather long erect setulose hairs in 23 irregular rows, more numerous and less strong than in
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(Séguy).
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Fore tibia in addition to a
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near middle, with a smaller one near apical one-fifth and a small
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beyond middle.
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Mid tibia with 1
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and 2
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setae.
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Hind tibia with 34
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, 3
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, 2(3)
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, the proximal
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and
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being smaller “and have apparently been overlooked by Stein” [They would not have been overlooked if Steins species was different to Emdens specimen].
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Of the female of this pair Emden said: “The
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a shifting spot on upper part of parafacial like
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(=
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)”. It is unlikely that the male from Gatsibu is
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD3F8AAE47AA6FE44" box="[144,237,462,486]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">modesta</emphasis>
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in view of the differences from Steins description, in which the hind tibia have 2
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and 2
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. Unfortunately, of this pair from Gatsibu, which were deposited in the MRAC in Tervuren (
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), only the female can now be found (communication from Dr M. De Meyer). It carries the following label:
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. MUS.
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:
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. terr. Biumba/
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6-11-53” [white printed rectangular label]; “
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/
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Stein
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det. 1955” [white printed/handwritten rectangular label]
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.
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This female is in poor condition, right antennae, right mid leg missing; left wing damaged along costa; right fore leg glued to polyporus mounting strip. This is a female of
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(Stein)
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.The specimen has the following characters which are contrary to Steins description of
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but agree with
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD1C5A82B7953FCBB" box="[685,792,769,793]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">flavibasis</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD3F8A8037A94FCE3" box="[144,223,809,833]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">Colour</emphasis>
: Parafacials opposite base of antennae with a darker brownish orange shifting patch (sheen-stripe); scutum with distinct brown spots around bases of setae. Wing membrane faintly tinged light brownish.
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD3F8A8BB7A86FC0B" box="[144,205,913,937]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">Head</emphasis>
: Gena below lowest point of eye margin 0.2× eye height.
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD3F8A8937AAAFC73" box="[144,225,953,977]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">Thorax</emphasis>
: 3 pairs of short and fine presutural
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, biserial, no hairs between rows;
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:
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ratio 10:6:10. Wing: large crossvein slightly sinuate. Legs: fore tibia with 1
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, 2
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; mid tibia apparently without
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, 1 strong
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(
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not visible); hind femur with about 4 5
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in distal half, no
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except 1 apical; hind tibia with 2
<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD077AF337971FB93" box="[799,826,1049,1073]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">av</emphasis>
, 4
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, 3
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, no
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.
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<subSubSection id="C7EB96A8FFE5FFABD3F8AF6B78AAFAB8" pageId="73" pageNumber="73" type="discussion">
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Discussion: In common with both Malloch and Emden, I have not seen any male specimens from
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that agree sufficiently with Steins description. The only Afrotropical
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD249AFAB7B14FB3B" box="[289,351,1153,1177]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">Delia</emphasis>
species
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which could be
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD11AAFAB7884FB3B" box="[626,719,1153,1177]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">modesta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD198AFAB7996FB3B" box="[752,989,1153,1177]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">D. madagascariensis</emphasis>
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described in this paper. The male of this species has rather narrow genae (0.170.20× eye height), hind tibia with 2
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and 2
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, prealar absent. Until further material (especially males) is available from the African mainland, I prefer not to synonymize these species; in the meantime
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<emphasis id="BD851931FFE5FFABD26DAE2B7B29FABB" box="[261,354,1281,1305]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="73">modesta</emphasis>
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remains an unrecognized species.
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