Atherigona ruficornis Stein, 1913

Muller, B. S., 2015, Illustrated key and systematics of male South African Atherigona s. str. (Diptera: Muscidae), African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 845-845 : 897

Atherigona ruficornis Stein, 1913

Fig. 38 Atherigona ruficornis Stein, 1913: 532 ; van Emden 1940: 121, figs 20, 50.

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from similar species such as A. rubricornis by its entirely yellow fore femur. The hypopygial prominence, whilst bifurcated and quite similar to that of A. rubricornis is more apically pointed. The trifoliate process is filiform in posterior view, and apically curved and dilated.

Type material examined: Syntype ♂: [ ZIMBABWE]: ‘Salisbury [Harare], Mashonaland, G.A.K. Marshall’ ( ZMHB) .

Other material examined: ETHIOPIA: 2♂ Alemaya , vii–viii.1986, T. Mesfin, leg. J.C. Deeming ( NMSA) (Previously NMW.Z.1986–118) . SOUTH AFRICA : KwaZulu­Natal: 1♂ Cathedral Peak area , 5–6.ii.1993, J.G.H. Londt, ex. Malaise ( NMSA) .

Distribution: Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe.

Figures

Figs 37–45. Atherigona spp.: trifoliate process and hypopygial prominence of (37) A. naqvii Steyskal; (38) A. ruficornis Stein; (39) A. flaviheteropalpata sp. n.; (40) A. latibasilaris sp. n.; (41) A. mitrata Séguy; (42) A. bedfordi van Emden; (43) A. ochracea Deeming; (44) A. theodori Hennig; (45) A. rubricornis Stein. Not to scale.