Atherigona chirinda Dike, 1989

Muller, B. S., 2015, Illustrated key and systematics of male South African Atherigona s. str. (Diptera: Muscidae), African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 845-845 : 863

Atherigona chirinda Dike, 1989

Fig. 35

Atherigona chirinda Dike, 1989 b: 75 , figs 6, 7.

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others by the combination of its yellow frontal vitta, palpi and legs, infuscated postpedicel, tridentate hypopygial prominence and trifoliate process with median piece filiform except for a dilated, emarginated apex. The trifoliate process also has its hood reduced.

Type material examined: Holotype ♂: [ ZIMBABWE]: ‘ Mt. Chirinda , Mashonaland, 3800ft [1158 m], 12.6.11, C.F.M. Swynnerton, 1912–117’ ( NHMUK).

Distribution: Zimbabwe (erroneously given by Dike (2003) as South Africa).

Figures

Figs 28–36. Atherigona spp.: trifoliate process and hypopygial prominence of (28) A. oblonga sp. n.; (29) A. libertensis sp. n.; (30) A. angustiloba van Emden; (31) A. albicornis sp. n.; (32) A. occidentalis Deeming; (33) A. kirkspriggsi sp. n.; (34) A. perfida Stein; (35) A. chirinda Dike; (36) A. cinarina Séguy. Not to scale.