Atherigona (Acritochaeta) maculipennis Stein, 1910

Deeming, John C., 2022, Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described, European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1), pp. 121-144 : 140

Atherigona (Acritochaeta) maculipennis Stein, 1910

Described from both sexes from the Seychelles ( Stein 1910: 158), the types appear in the material discovered in the Smithsonian Institution. These, a male and female, are in excellent condition, are micropinned onto pith mounts on ‘continental’ pins and are identically labelled, thus:

1) white rectangular “ Seychelles [short illegible word]” handwritten.

2) red rectangular “ Type ” machine-printed.

3) white rectangular “ Atherigona maculipennis Type (Stein) det. Stein”, and with respective sex symbol.

Remarks

The diagnosis of this species as given by van Emden (1940: 105), correct in every other detail, cites the frontal vitta as being orange-red. This is certainly true of the female, but in the male it is much darker, being black and only slightly paler anteriorly. The palpus of the male, on its apical one third, bears an area of erect wavy fine pale hairs on its ventral surface.

Distribution

Seychelles.