Atherigona Rondani, 1856

Couri, Márcia Souto, de Carvalho, Claudio J. B. & Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Taxonomy of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Namibia: a key to genera, diagnoses, new records and description of a new species, African Invertebrates 53 (1), pp. 47-47 : 50

Genus Atherigona Rondani, 1856

Atherigona (see Couri et al. 2006, for diagnosis) contains 126 species in the Afrotropical Region, 14 in the subgenus Acritochaeta Grimshaw, 1901 and 112 in the subgenus Atherigona s. str. (Pont 1980). Deeming (1971, 1979) studied the species from Nigeria DQG &RPRURV $UFKLSHODJR, UHVSHFWLYHO\.'LNH (ƚ989) SUHVHQWHG D NH\ IRU WKH LGHQWL¿FDWLRQ of the Afrotropical species and described new species from Africa. One year later (Dike 1990) described two new species from Nigeria and presented a key for the Afrotropical species of the subgenus Acritochaeta . More recently, Couri et al. (2006) described three new species of the subgenus Atherigona and presented two new records, one of each subgenus from Madagascar.

Nine species of Atherigona have previously been recorded from Namibia; eight from subgenus Atherigona : A. bedfordi Emden, 1940 (Deeming 2000: 284, Brandberg Massif); A. falcata (Thomson, 1869) (Deeming 1975: 2, Ongeama); A. hyalinipennis Emden, 1959 (Deeming 2000: 284, Brandberg Massif); A. lineata ugandae Emden, 1940 (Deeming 2000: 284–285, Brandberg Massif); A. naqvii Steyskal, 1966 (Deeming 1975: 2, Daan Viljoen; Deeming 2000: 285, Brandberg Massif); A. rubricornis Stein, 1913 (Deeming 2000: 286, Brandberg Massif); A. tetrastigma Paterson, 1956 ( Lindner 1976: 79, Krumhuk and Daan Viljoen); A. theodori Hennig, 1963 (Deeming 2000: 286, Brandberg Massif) and one from Acritochaeta subgenus: A. orientalis Schiner, 1868 (Pont 1992: 64, Otjikoko Süd Farm 33 miles ENE Omaruru).

Among the studied material, only one species was found, A. mitrata , which represents a new record for Namibia.