Atherigona griseiventris 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 : 873

Atherigona griseiventris van Emden, 1940

Fig. 13

Atherigona griseiventris van Emden, 1940: 140 , figs 12, 38; Deeming 1979: 48.

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others with similar infuscated palpi and frontal vitta by the shape of the median piece of the trifoliate process which is greatly dilated in profile up to just before the apex, and thin and linear in posterior view except for the apex, which appears almost round.

Type material examined: Holotype ♂ KENYA: Aberdere Range , x.1934, B.M.E. Afr. Exp. B.M. 1935-203, Mt. Kinangop, 8000ft [2438 m], F.W. Edwards. Det. Emden 1939 ( NHMUK).

Distribution: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda.

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.