Coenosia abyssinica (Emden, 1941: 229)

Holotype female seen; in good condition.

Diagnosis. General colour brown; postpronotum and notopleuron grey pollinose, scutum with 3 very faint brown vittae; antenna, arista and palpus brown; haltere yellow; legs brown; frons more or less subparallel, not narrowed from base of antenna to middle of frons; frons at least as wide as one eye; arista with short hairs; scutellum with both pairs of setae present and with setulae on disc; anterior katepisternal about two-thirds of the length of the posterior one; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one; fore tibia with a long median seta; hind tibia with one median anterior and one anterodorsal inserted almost at the same level.

Notes. Described by Emden (1941) from a female; male unknown.