An overview of the Afrotropical Ommatiinae (Diptera: Asilidae) with a key to genera
Author
Scarbrough, A. G.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-07-19
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journal article
1175-5326
Emphysomera
Schiner
Figs. 24–29
,
107
Emphysomera
Schiner, 1866: 845
.
Type
species:
Ommatius conopsoides
Wiedemann, 1828
, by original description;
Hull 1962: 259
;
Martin 1964: 308
;
Daniels 1989: 333
;
Scarbrough &
Marascia 1996: 71
.
Diagnosis.
The genus is distinguished by the long woolly setae, spatulate abdomen, the shape of the r
4
cell (
Fig. 24
), and unique terminalia of both sexes (
Figs. 26–29
).
FIGURES 19–23.
Cophinopoda pulchripes
Bigot
, male terminalia. 19. Epandrium; 20. Gonocoxite and hypandrium; 21. Aedeagus; 22. Female, sternite 8; 23. Spermathecae. Abbr.: distph=distiphallus; epiph=epiphallus; goncx=gonocoxite; pvapod=posteroventral aedeagal apodeme; spmth caps= spermathecal capsule.
Distribution
. Subsaharan Africa and
Madagascar
.
Remarks
.
Emphysomera
was long considered a synonym of
Ommatius
(
Oldroyd 1975
,
1980
;
Martin 1964
;
Daniels 1989
). In a review it was reinstated to genus (
Scarbrough &
Marascia 1996
). The distribution of the genus is presented in
Fig. 107
.
Emphysomera macquarti
Bezzi, 1908
, and
E. haemorrhoides
Lindner, 1955
, were declared synonyms of
E. pallidapex
Bigot, 1891
. Three subsaharan species,
E. auribarbis
Wiedemann, 1828
(
Democratic Republic of Congo
,
Guinea
,
Ivory Coast
,
Mozambique
,
Sierra Leone
,
Uganda
),
E. pallidapex
(
Botswana
,
Chad
,
Democratic Republic of Congo
,
Gambia
,
Ghana
,
Ivory Coast
,
Liberia
,
Senegal
,
Sierra Leone
,
South Africa
,
Swaziland
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe
), and
E. spinalis
Scarbrough & Marascia, 1996
(
Chad
,
Kenya
,
Malawi
,
Mozambique
,
Zimbabwe
), are recognized. Only
E. atrogaster
Bigot, 1859
has been collected in
Madagascar
.
Adults have been collected margin vegetation of roads and trails through forests, bushveld and mixed woodland communities during each month in the year using hand nets and malaise and black light traps.