Anypodetus macroceros Londt, 2000

Dikow, Torsten & Dubus, Meliah, 2023, A review of the assassin-fly genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 with the description of a new species (Insecta, Diptera, Asilidae), African Invertebrates 64 (2), pp. 165-206 : 165

Anypodetus macroceros Londt, 2000

Figs 39-41 , 52

Taxon depository.

ZooBank: https://zoobank.org/15C1B571-6E8A-4EE6-95FD-F883C73E619D;

GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/1664900;

Plazi TreatmentBank: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B39D2F-F048-9D42-FF7D-FB43D9F14647.

Diagnosis.

The species is distinguished from congeners by the unique postpedicel shape in which the apical part is narrowing and appearing as an elongate stylus, which itself is developed regularly (see fig. 6 in Londt 2000), and the densely arranged microtrichia on the wing.

Type locality.

Namibia: Hardap: Aandster Farm (25°21'34"S, 016°06'04"E, -25.35944, 16.10111).

Material examined.

Namibia - Hardap • 1♂ Maltahöhe, Aandster Farm ; 25°21'34"S, 016°06'04"E; 1000 m a.s.l.; 16 Feb. 1974; Irwin, M. leg.; vegetated dune and grassland; NMSA-DIP-009021, Holotype, NMSA.

Distribution, biodiversity hotspots, seasonal imago flight activity, and biology.

Known only from the type locality in the central Namib Desert in Namibia (Fig. 52 ). A rarely collected species known only from a single specimen from one collecting event in 1974 (Table 2 ). The species is not known to occur in any currently recognized biodiversity hotspot. Adult flies are active in February in summer (Table 3 ). Nothing is known of the biology.

Figures

Figure 52. Map of southern Africa with elevational relief and biodiversity hotspots (sensu Conservation International in gray) and distribution of A. fasciatus, A. fascipennis, A. macroceros, A. nigrifacies, and A. phalaros (SimpleMappr https: // www. simplemappr. net / map / 20267). Distribution and occurrence data available in Google Earth KML file https: // www. simplemappr. net / map / 20267. kml.

Figures 39 - 41. A. macroceros 39 ♂ holotype (NMSA-DIP- 009021), lateral 40 same, dorsal 41 same, head anterior. Photographs by NMSA staff, copyright KwaZulu-Natal Museum.