Anypodetus nigrifacies Ricardo, 1925

Figs 42-45, 52

Taxon depository.

ZooBank: https://zoobank.org/AB815003-5E96-4C41-9481-8CB39BF56AE4;

GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/1664909;

Plazi TreatmentBank (Londt 2000): https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B39D2F-F048-9D42-FF7D-F9E6D9B84607.

Diagnosis.

The species is distinguished from congeners by the uniformly brown stained wings with the wings being densely covered by microtrichia, and by the overall brown coloration.

Type locality.

Mozambique: Maputo: Lourenço-Marqués (= Maputo) (25°57'00"S, 032°34'00"E, -25.95, 32.56667).

Material examined.

Mozambique - Gaza • 1♂ Chigubo; 22°49'55"S, 033°31'10"E; 11 Feb. 1964; Moore, A. leg.; USNMENT01140569, USNM .

Mozambique - Maputo • 1♀ Lourenço-Marqués (= Maputo); 25°57'00"S, 032°34'00"E; 12 Dec. 1906; McMillan, J.D. leg.; NHMUK013445837, Paralectotype, NHMUK • 1♀ same locality 15 Dec. 1906; McMillan, J.D. leg.; NHMUK013445835, Paralectotype, NHMUK • 1♂ same locality 18 Dec. 1906; McMillan, J.D. leg.; NHMUK013445836, Lectotype, NHMUK • 1♀ Maputo; 25°58'00"S, 032°34'00"E; 15 Mar. 1980; Feijen, H. leg.; NMSA-DIP-009024, NMSA • 1♂ Moamba; 25°36'14"S, 032°14'35"E; 09-12 Mar. 1964; Moore, A. leg.; USNMENT01831272, USNM .

South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal • 1♀ Mkuzi Game Reserve; 27°38'20"S, 032°09'30"E; Jan. 1949; Munro, H. leg.;, SANC • 1♀ Mkuzi Game Reserve; 27°35'44"S, 032°13'09"E; 100 m a.s.l.; 01 Feb. 1988; Londt, Jason leg.; main camp + caravan park area; NAMS-DIP-009015, NMSA • 1♀ same data; NMSA-DIP-097038, NMSA • 1♀ same data; NMSA-DIP-097039, NMSA • 1♂ same data; NMSA-DIP-097040, NMSA • 1♂ same data; NMSA-DIP-097041, NMSA • 1♂ same data; NMSA-DIP-097042, NMSA • 1♂ same data; NMSA-DIP-097043, NMSA • 1♂ same data; NMSA-DIP-097044, NMSA • 1♀ Ndumu Game Reserve; 26°52'00"S, 032°15'00"E; 28 Nov. 1961; Oatley, T. leg.; NMSA-DIP-009013, NMSA • 1♀ Ndumu Game Reserve; 26°52'00"S, 032°15'00"E; 26 Oct. 1972; Irwin, M.E. leg.; NMSA-DIP-009008, NMSA • 1♀ same data; NMSA-DIP-097046, NMSA • 1♀ Ndumu Game Reserve; 26°52'00"S, 032°15'00"E; 15 Feb. 1978; Brothers, D., Bampton leg.; Malaise trap; NAMS-DIP-009009, NMSA • 1♀ Ndumu Game Reserve; 26°52'00"S, 032°15'00"E; 15 Feb. 1978; Brothers, D., Bampton leg.; Malaise trap; NAMS-DIP-097045, NMSA • 1♂ Ndumu Game Reserve, rest camp; 26°52'00"S, 032°15'00"E; 95 m a.s.l.; 23-29 Nov. 1977; Brothers, D., Guillarmond, J. leg.; Malaise trap; NAMS-DIP-009005, NMSA • 1♀ Ndumu Reserve; 26°52'00"S, 032°15'00"E; 01-10 Dec. 1963; Stuckenberg, Brian, Stuckenberg, P. leg.; NMSA-DIP-009006, NMSA .

Distribution, biodiversity hotspots, seasonal imago flight activity, and biology.

Known only from eastern-most South Africa and southern Mozambique (Fig. 52). A rarely observed and collected species known from 22 specimens from 11 collecting events between 1906-1988 (Table 2). The species occurs in but is not endemic to the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany biodiversity hotspot (a single collecting event is outside of the hotspot). Adult flies are active from late spring to late summer (October-March) (Table 3). Nothing is known of the biology.

Remarks.

Ricardo (1925: 244) described this species on 'Types (male and female) and another male and female, all from Lorenzo Marques, Portuguese E. Africa (F.D. McMillan), in Brit. Mus Coll.' In doing so she did not designate a holotype so all her listed specimens must be considered syntypes. The three NHMUK specimens of A. nigrifacies were labeled as Syntypes by J. Chainey in 1984. It is unknown where the 4th specimen is deposited. Londt (2000: 134) designated 'the male as lectotype and the female as paralectotype’ but none of the specimens are labeled as such and there are more than two specimens. We hereby designate the male from Lorenzo Marques (= Maputo) as Lectotype (NHMUK013445836) in order to stabilize the species concept and the two female specimens from the same locality as Paralectotypes (NHMUK013445835 and NHMUK013445837).