5a Mystax uniformly black; antennal postpedicel uniformly orange. Illustrations - Head (Fig. 3), Antenna (Fig. 5), Wing (Fig. 8), Hypopygium (Figs 25-27), Ovipositor (Fig. 35), T2 (Fig. 42), Distribution (Fig. 48).........................

nigrifacies Ricardo

Synonymy: Anypodetus nigrifacies Ricardo, 1925: 244 .

Material examined: MOZAMBIQUE: 1♀, Maputo [25 ° 58'S: 32 ° 34'E], 15.iii.1980, HR Feijen; SOUTH AFRICA: 2♀, Ndumu Game Reserve, 2632CC, 26.x.1972, ME Irwin; 1♂, Ndumu Game Reserve, Rest Camp, 2632CD, 95 m, 23-9.xi.1977, Brothers & J -Guillarmod, Malaise; 2♀, Ndumu Game Reserve, Rest Camp, 2632CD, 95 m, 15.ii.1978, Brothers & Bampton, Malaise; 1♀, Ndumu Reserve Ingwavuma dist., 28.xi.1961, T Oatley; 1♀, Ndumu Reserve Ingwavuma dist., 1-10.xii.1963, B&P Stuckenberg; 5♂ 3♀, Mkuzi Game Reserve, ca. 27 ° 35'S: 32 ° 13'E, 100 m, 1.ii.1988, JGH Londt, Main camp & Caravan Park area; 1♀, Mkuzi Game Reserve, i.1949, HK Munro [SANC].

Type material not seen: 1♂ 1♀ syntypes, Mozambique, Lorenzo Marques (= Maputo) (and another pair from same locality) in BMNH. I have seen other material from this locality as well as specimens compared with the types by Oldroyd.

A. nigrifacies: Although I have not seen Ricardo’s syntypes, I here designate the male as lectotype and the female as paralectotype.

A. nigrifacies: Unlike most species, except unicolor, this species inhabits the warm, high rainfall climatic regions adjacent to the east coast of southern Africa.