Aethiopomyia steini (Curran, 1935) (not seen)

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 steini (Curran, 1935) (not seen)

Diagnosis

(characters from Curran (1935) original description). Length of body. 9.5-11.5 mm. Head. black, face and lower third of frons reddish with silver-white pruinescence. Frontal vittae brownish; palpus reddish brown; antenna yellow and arista mostly brown. Thorax. scutum reddish, darker above, with an incomplete median vitta and the lateral margins whitish pruinose, posteriorly with reddish brown pruinescence, the two broad, shiny, ferruginous vittae more or less divided by a thin yellowish pruinose line in front of the suture. Haltere reddish yellow. Legs. Reddish, posterior, and middle tibiae more or less brown and tarsi black. Mid tibia with four or five posterior setae. Abdomen. basal two abdominal segments rusty reddish, the third and fourth black.

Female. Differs in frontal vitta reddish brown above; no orbitals; scutum with very poorly defined dark vittae, almost unicolorous.

Types. Holotype ♂; 3 paratypes ♂ (all from Eden, Cameroon); Allotype ♀ (Sierra Leone) ( Zumpt 1969). Not seen.

Note.

The species was keyed Zumpt (1969). According to Curran (1935) A. steini is very similar to A. gigas , differing by having the median vittae reddish and much finer setae on the sternite. Also differs from A. arguta by having the third and fourth abdominal segment wholly black.