Oligopogon hybotinus ( Loew, 1847 ), 1962

Londt, Jason G. H., 2014, A revision of Afrotropical Oligopogon Loew, 1847 (Diptera: Asilidae) with the description of eighteen new species, African Invertebrates 55 (2), pp. 269-269 : 292-293

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scientific name	Oligopogon hybotinus ( Loew, 1847 )
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Oligopogon hybotinus ( Loew, 1847) View in CoL

Dasypogon hybotinus Loew, 1847: 498–499 View in CoL .

Oligopogon hybotinus: Hull 1962: 212 View in CoL ; Oldroyd 1970: 295 (key) 296–7 (figs 68 ♀ terminalia, 69 wing); 1980: 370 (catalogue).

Type material: Loew (1847) studied both ♂ and ♀ and recorded ‘ Vaterland : Die Insel

Rhodes, wo ich beide Geschlechter im Mai fing.’

Discussion: Loew (1847) described this, the type species of Oligopogon , on material from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes ( Greece) located in the Palaearctic Region. Oldroyd (1970), however, recorded the species for the Afrotropical countries of Burundi and DR Congo as follows: ‘ Urundi: Bururi, 4♂, 6♀, x.1948 (F. J. François) ( MRAC)’, ‘Garamba National Park: P.N.G., 308, Mt. Ndogo, 2♂, 4♀, 15.iii.1950, I/a/1, 1♀, 1.v.50 (Demoulin)’ ( MRAC, IRSNB) and ‘3461, Inimvua, 1♀, 16.v.1952 ’ (IPNC IRSNB). I have studied the following specimens, all labelled as hybotinus by Oldroyd in 1966. 6♂ 1♀ 2? ( MRAC) from Bururi which I have assigned to nitidus (see detailed listing under that name). Although two specimens are now without abdomens it is obvious that Oldroyd was mistaken about the sexes of some of these specimens as details do not tally. The other specimens listed by Oldroyd (1970) have the following label data: 1♀ ‘ Congo Belge, P. N.G. / Miss. H. De Saeger / Mt. Ndogo, 15-iii-1950 / Réc. H. De Saeger. 308’ ( IRSNB); 1♀ ‘ Congo Belge, P. N.G. / Miss. H. De Saeger / Inimvua, 16-v-1952 / D. De Saeger. 3461’ ( IRSNB); 1♀ ‘ Congo Belge, P. N.G. / Miss. H. De Saeger / I/a/1 [no locality], 1-v-1950 / Réc. G. Demoulin. 469’ ( IRSNB).All three were misidentified and actually represent a species of Rhabdogaster Loew, 1858 . It appears, therefore, that hybotinus does not occur in the Afrotropical Region. The Palaearctic distribution is discussed by Geller-Grimm and Hradský (2003).