Atherigona binubila van Emden, 1940

Muller, B. S., 2015, Illustrated key and systematics of male South African Atherigona s. str. (Diptera: Muscidae), African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 845-845 : 861

Atherigona binubila van Emden, 1940

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Atherigona binubila van Emden, 1940: 138 , fig. 10; Deeming 1971: 180, figs 151, 152; 1979: 48, fig. 46. Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others by its infuscated frontal vitta and palpi. The wings have brownish suffusions over the humeral crossvein and Sc­R 1. The hypopygial prominence is knoblike, with two strongly projecting tubercles and the trifoliate process has its median piece and lateral plates narrow.

Type material examined: Holotype ♂: KENYA: ‘ Van Someren, Nairod[b]i, ix. 1937 ’ ( NHMUK).

Distribution: Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Figures

Figs 19–27. Atherigona spp.: trifoliate process and hypopygial prominence of (19) A. marginifolia van Emden; (20) A. erectisetula sp. n.; (21) A. humeralis (Wiedemann); (22) A. bundongoana van Emden; (23) A. falcata (Thomson); (24) A. ndumoensis sp. n.; (25) A. decempilosa Dike; (26) A. binubila van Emden; (27) A. piscatoris sp. n. Not to scale.