Aethiopomyia patersoni Zumpt, 1969

de Sousa, Viviane Rodrigues, Pereira, Andre Fontinelle Magalhaes & Couri, Marcia Souto, 2020, On Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae) with the revision of the type specimens deposited in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin (Germany) with a key to species, ZooKeys 926, pp. 73-80 : 73

Aethiopomyia patersoni Zumpt, 1969 Figures 11-14

Paratypes.

2 ♀ (see Pont and Werner 2006: 81 for details)

Diagnosis.

Length of body. 11.0-14.0 mm (♀). Very similar to A. gigas , differing as follows: Head. Fronto-orbital plate silvery white pruinose. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum ground color brown, four broad black vittae laterally and one median white-silver pruinose vitta. Scutum laterally and scutellum dark brown. Pleurae dark brown, Lower calypter broad, ca. 3 × as long as the upper one. Haltere yellow. Calypters yellowish, the upper one with brown margin. Legs. Color and chaetotaxy as in A. arguta . Abdomen. Tergites I-III almost reddish brown; tergites IV and V almost all black. Abdominal sternites with strong setae.

Note.

The species was keyed Zumpt (1969). Cercal plate and surstylus as in Zumpt (1969: figs 1, 2). Only females seen.

Figures

Figures 1 - 19. 1 - 5 Aethiopomyia arguta (Karsch, 1879) lectotype ♂ of Aricia arguta Karsch: 1 lateral view 2 dorsal view 3 head frontal view 4 pulvilli 5 labels 6 - 10 Aethiopomyia gigas (Stein, 1906) syntype ♂: 6 lateral view 7 dorsal view 8 head frontal view 9 pulvilli 10 labels 11 - 14 Aethiopomyia patersoni Zumpt, 1969 Paratype ♀: 11 lateral view; 12 dorsal view 13 head frontal view 14 labels 15 - 19 Aethiopomyia williamsi (Snyder, 1951) ♀ of Lophomala anax Enderlein, 1927, nomen nudum: 15 lateral view 16 dorsal view 17 head frontal view 18 wing 19 labels. Scale bars: 5 mm (1 - 3, 5, 6 - 8, 10 - 19); 1 mm (4, 9).