Pedomyia gen. n.

Type species: Pedomyia epidema sp. n.

Description: Small to medium sized, dark brown, silver and/or gold pruinose stenopogonine asilids with the following combination of characters. Head (Fig. 54): clearly wider than high in anterior view. Antenna: scape a little longer than pedicel, segment 3 a little longer than scape and pedicel combined, widening toward middle (in lateral view) before abruptly tapering to narrow apex, style cylindrical with terminal spine-like seta. Mystax shiny, occupying between! and entire face (slight facial protuberance associated with mystax); palpi 2-segmented. Thorax: postmetacoxal area membranous; anepimeral bristle absent; numerous scutellar macrosetae (marginal and on disc). Wing (Fig. 56): ca. 3-5 mm long, transparent, immaculate, unifonn microtrichial cover, C extends around entire wing margin, cells m3 and cup open at wing margin. Legs: pulvilli and empodia well developed. Abdomen: somewhat elongate; ♂ terminalia unrotated or rotated up to 90°; ♂ epandrium short (shorter than gonocoxite), separated into two lobes from about} - 1 length from base; hypandrium moderately well developed with mediodistal lobe.

Variation: P. namibia sp. n. may be digeneric in that the antennae (Fig. 57) and male genitalia (Figs 73-75) do not entirely confonn in shape. The species is, therefore, tentatively assigned to Pedomyia pending further analysis.

Etymology: Gr. pedon n. ground, earth, soil + myia f. -fly (refers to the ground resting behaviour of congeners).