Atherigona steeleae 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 : 898

Atherigona steeleae van Emden, 1940

Fig. 63

Atherigona steeleae van Emden, 1940: 129 ; Deeming 1971: 170, figs 103–107; Deeming 1979: 38.

Diagnosis: This species is distinguishable by the combination of its entirely yellow legs and palpi, a subcordiform hypopygial prominence and the trifoliate process with the median piece apically dilated and the apex slightly emarginate.

Type material examined: Holotype ♂ ‘ UGANDA: Ruwenzori Range , xii.1934 – i.1935, B.M.E. Afr. Exp. B.M. 1935-203, Kilembe, 4500ft. [1372 m], F.W. Edwards’ ( NHMUK).

Other material examined: KENYA: 1♂ Maungu Hills , 7.i.1973, I. Bampton ( NMSA) . SOUTH AFRICA : KwaZulu­Natal: 1♂ Port Edward , 31°03'S 30°13'E, 9.vi.1997, K.R. Cradock, Malaise trap ( NMSA) .

Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

Figures

Figs 55–63. Atherigona spp.: trifoliate process and hypopygial prominence of (55) A. nesshurstensis sp. n.; (56) A. vernoni sp. n.; (57) A. convexa sp. n.; (58) A. rimapicis sp. n.; (59) A. falkei Deeming; (60) A. danielssoni sp. n.; (61) A. tigris sp. n.; (62) A. stuckenbergi sp. n.; (63) A. steeleae van Emden. Not to scale.