Diopsis longicornis Macquart, 1835

Feijen, Hans R. & Feijen, Cobi, 2012, A new species of Diopsis L. (Diptera: Diopsidae) from South Africa and Swaziland, and brief review of African species with a large apical wing spot, African Invertebrates 53 (1), pp. 125-125 : 139

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7917509
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scientific name	Diopsis longicornis Macquart, 1835
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Diopsis longicornis Macquart, 1835 View in CoL View at ENA

Diopsis longicornis: Macquart 1835: 486 View in CoL (Type locality: ‘Guinée’ and Senegal); Steyskal 1972: 9; Feijen 1987: 410, 413.

Diopsis thoracica Westwood, 1837 a: 306 View in CoL (Type locality: West Africa ).

Diopsis phlogodes Hendel, 1923: 37 View in CoL (Type locality: Kenya).

Distribution: Most of sub-Saharan Africa, including Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Notes: Diopsis longicornis is a well-known rice stem borer, easily recognised by its large and robust built, dorsally pruinose collar, glossy black scutum, with a little pruinosity in the anterior tip, pruinose faciae anteriorly of intrascutal suture and anteriorly of scutellum, red pruinose scutellum, only some infuscation at wing apex, surstylus in lateral view a quarter circle, slightly broader apically with only microtrichia and setulae on apical section, rectangular female sternum 7 and broad cerci.

References

HENDEL, F. 1923. Afrikanische Diopsiden (Diptera). Wiener entomologische Zeitung 40: 33 - 42.

MACQUART, J. 1835. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Dipteres. Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret.

STEYSKAL, G. 1972. A catalogue of species and key to the genera of the family Diopsidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 234: 1 - 20.

WESTWOOD, J. O. 1837 a. On Diopsis, a genus of dipterous insects, with descriptions of twenty-one species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 17: 283 - 313, pl. 9.