Aphasmaphleps, , Grichanov, 2010

Capellari, Renato S. & Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2012, Review of the Afrotropical genus Aphasmaphleps Grichanov (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), African Invertebrates 53 (1), pp. 35-35 : 38

Key to species of Aphasmaphleps based on male characters

1 Vein M reduced to a faint trace; IIt 1 with anterior and ventral rows of stiff hairs, IIt 2 about half as long as IIt 3; distal stylomere of arista-like stylus about 7× as long as basal stylomere..................................................................................................2

– Vein M distinct; IIt 1 without rows of stiff hairs; IIt 2 about as long as IIt 3; distal stylomere of arista-like stylus about 4× as long as basal stylomere......................3

2 Arista-like stylus with apical flag ( Fig. 5 )........................................... paulyi sp. n.

– Arista-like stylus without apical flag (Grichanov 2010, fig. 3)................................ .................................................................................................... bandia Grichanov

3 Arista-like stylus with apical flag ( Fig. 7 )........................................... bickeli sp. n.

– Arista-like stylus without apical flag ( Fig. 6 )........................... stuckenbergi sp. n.

Figures

Figs 5–11. Antennae and tarsi of Aphasmaphleps spp., transmitted light: (5–9) antennae: A. paulyi sp. n., male (5); A. stuckenbergi sp. n., male (6); A. bickeli sp. n., male (7) and female (8); (9) A. sp. A, apex of male stylus; (10, 11) male mid tarsus: A. paulyi sp. n. (10), A. stuckenbergi sp. n. (11). Scale bars = 0.2 mm (5, 6), 0.1 mm (7–11).