Atherigona aster 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 : 860

Atherigona aster van Emden, 1940

Fig. 18

Atherigona aster van Emden, 1940: 117 , figs 24, 46; Deeming 1981: 104, figs 13 (female tergite 8).

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others by the combination of its yellow frontal vitta and very distinctly shaped hypopygial promince which has a blunt central tubercle and four sharply defined tubercles that are quadrately arranged.

Type material examined: Holotype ♂ ‘ KENYA: Naivasha , vii.1937 (H.J.A. Turner)’ ( NHMUK).

Paratype ♂ same label data as holotype ( NHMUK) .

Other material examined: SOUTH AFRICA : KwaZulu­Natal: 1♂ Mkuze Reserve , 3–11.x.1977, J.G.H. Londt, ex. Malaise ( NMSA) . SWAZILAND: 1♂ 13 km N of Ngogolo, Panata Ranch , 26°19'S 31°38'E, 300 m, Bushveld, 22–24.iv.1991, J.G.H. Londt & L. Schoeman ( NMSA) .

Distribution: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa (new), Swaziland (new).

Figures

Figs10–18.Atherigona spp.:trifoliate processand hypopygialprominence of(10) A.nigrapicalisDeeming; (11) A. longifolia van Emden; (12) A. aurifacies van Emden; (13) A. griseiventris van Emden; (14) A. capitulata sp. n.; (15) A. umbonata sp. n.; (16) A. flavifinis sp. n.; (17) A. heteropalpata sp. n., also palpus; (18) A. aster van Emden. Not to scale.