Lamyra rossi Oldroyd, 1974 A review of Lamyra Loew (Diptera: Asilidae: Laphriinae) Dikow, Torsten Londt, J. G. H. African Entomology 2000 8 2 189 200 Oldroyd Oldroyd Insecta Asilidae Lamyra CoL Animalia Diptera 7 196 Arthropoda species rossi   Lamyra rossi Oldroyd, 1974: 100.  Redescription Based on the female holotypeand male paratype, both from Angola. This brief redescription supplements Oldroyd's original description that appeared in a key. Head. Frons, face, maxillary palp, antenna and vertex orange; proboscis proximally orange-red, distally red-brown, with mixed black and white setae along dorsal ridge; two white divergent setae on ocellar tubercle. Thorax. Mesonotum orange-red with black pattern, female with pair of black posterolateral spots, male with two black longitudinal stripes, not reaching hind margin, and two pairs of black marks laterally; mesopleura black, distinct greyish pruinescence consists of one anterior patch on anepisternum, two pruinose pleurites anterior to wing base, and an extensive patch on posterodorsal margin of katepisternum; metapleura with posterior stripe of distinct greyish pruinescence (as in L. gulo , Fig. 13). Legs. Tibiae and tarsi orange-red with black macrosetae; fore and mid femora orange with bluish-black dorsal stripe not reaching extremities; hind femora orange with bluish-black band in distal part, not reaching apex (female: half as longas femur; male: extended over most of femur). Abdomen. T1-3 almost entirely greyish or yellow-gold pruinose, T4 black pruinose, T5-8 dull black with yellow setae in F, except for anterior half of T5 where setae are white, and white setae in males; genitalia of both sexes orange-red with yellow (female) or mostly white (male) setae. Male genitalia as in Figs 7-9.   Typematerial examined.  Holotype ♀, ANGOLA: Angola  45 miS./ Santa Combe Dao[ 11.38S 14.53E] /  3.iv.1970/ Edward S. Ross'( CASC);  1♂ paratype, Angola:  16 miW./ Paiva Couceiro[ 12.45S 15.41E] /  1330 m,  9.xii.1966/ E.S. Ross& / K. Lorenzen'( CASC). 1227780389 1970-04-03 CASC Edward S. Ross Angola -11.63 Santa Combe Dao 1 14.88 1 1 holotype 1227780388 1966-12-09 CASC E. S. Ross & K. Lorenzen Angola 1330 m -12.75 Paiva Couceiro 1 15.68 1 1 paratype