Atherigona cinarina Séguy, 1938

Muller, B. S., 2015, Illustrated key and systematics of male South African Atherigona s. str. (Diptera: Muscidae), African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 845-845 : 865

Atherigona cinarina Séguy, 1938

Fig. 36

Atherigona cinarina Séguy, 1938: 371 ; van Emden 1956: 520, figs 5, 6.

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from others by the combination of its frontal vitta being infuscated on the basal half and yellow on apical half, postpedical yellow with infuscated dorsal and apical margins and yellow palpi. The trifoliate process has its median piece wider at its base than at apex when viewed in profile, and the process has a pair of long setulae apically. The median piece and lateral plates also have distinctive fine setulae on their surfaces.

Type material examined: Holotype ♂: KENYA: Mars , Kitale, Uashin Gishu, 2100 m ( MNHN).

Distribution: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda.

Figures

Figs 28–36. Atherigona spp.: trifoliate process and hypopygial prominence of (28) A. oblonga sp. n.; (29) A. libertensis sp. n.; (30) A. angustiloba van Emden; (31) A. albicornis sp. n.; (32) A. occidentalis Deeming; (33) A. kirkspriggsi sp. n.; (34) A. perfida Stein; (35) A. chirinda Dike; (36) A. cinarina Séguy. Not to scale.