Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971

Fig. 1a

Material examined

GUINEA • 5 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; Nimba, “Fôrét du Zié” [Zié Forest]; 1500 m a.s.l.; 6 Jan. 1984; C. Girard leg.; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; NMWC .

Remarks

Described from a single male from the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria (Deeming 1971: 173).

Female: apart from sexual characters differing from the male in the following respects: palpus black; scutellum black throughout; pleura black in ground colour with exception of propleuron and anterior one third of anepisternum; all tarsi infuscate; fore femur black on all but extreme base and apex; fore tibia black on apical two thirds of its length; a pair of brownish black spots on tergites 4 and 5, those on 4 longer and more triangular in shape, those on 5 oblong; tergite 8 (Fig. 1a).

Distribution

Guinea, Nigeria.