Amblypsilopus abruptus (Walker, 1859)

Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2021, Eleven new species of Amblypsilopus Bigot (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) and a key to the species of Madagascar and adjacent islands, European Journal of Taxonomy 755 (1), pp. 47-87 : 52

Amblypsilopus abruptus species group

Diagnosis

See Bickel (1994) for a diagnosis of the group. The Madagascan Amblypsilopus abruptus species group shares mostly primitive characters, such as the simple cercus and surstylus, short antennae, broad face, mostly non-ornamented and non-elongated legs, unmodified wing venation, usually dark body and femora.

Notes

The Amblypsilopus abruptus group is widespread throughout the Old World tropics. The following Madagascan species belong to the A. abruptus group: A. ankarana , A. cilifrons , A. flabellifer , A. kraussi , A. madagascariensis and A. prysjonesi . Amblypsilopus cilifrons is reported also from DR Congo, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria and Togo. Amblypsilopus prysjonesi is known only from the type locality on the Seychelles islands (Aldabra).