Agrostomyia dimorpha, Londt, 1994

Londt, Jason G. H., 1994, Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera, ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 35, pp. 71-96 : 78-79

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8360701

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8345114

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C77156-8B3D-AF39-1E9B-9D7DF9D2FAEC

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Agrostomyia dimorpha
status

sp. nov.

Agrostomyia dimorpha View in CoL Sp. n.

Figs 1-6 View Figs 1-6

Supplementary descriptive data: Head: black, gold-silver pruinose; antenna black, scape with long, yellow setae ventrally, pedicel with few pale yellow setae dorsally only; mystax and other cephalic setae yellow (paler in 9); palp blackish with terminal pit-like opening; proboscis black, straight, ca. same length as antenna. Thorax: blackish, gold-silver pruinose; mesonotal macrosetae yellow (ca. 5 npl, 3 spal, 2 pal); ktg setae yellow; scutellum with yellow marginal macrosetae and minor setae which extend onto disc. Legs: femora orange; tibiae with proximal 縠 orange, distal l and entire tarsus dark red-brown to black. Abdomen: ♂ - TIS 1 and posterior j of T2 blackish, other segments and terminalia orange; setae short, yellow. Genitalia as in Figs 4-6. ♀ - black, hind margins of T2-5 with slight traces of orange. Variation: some Namibian ♀♀ have upper parts of femora somewhat dark red-brown (especially hindlegs) while cJ may have a somewhat duller orange-brown abdominal coloration.

Material ( NMSA - Type 1096): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province: 5 ♂ (HT & PT) 5 ♀ ( PT): ' Sth Africa Cape Prov / 30 Ian E. Groblershoop / 2822CD 19.iii.1982 / J. Londt & L. Schoeman / Roadside vegetation' ( BMNH - 1 ♂ 1 ♀ PT); 1 ♂ ( PT), 35 km W of Kimberley, 2824CB, 17.iii. 1982, Londt & Schoeman; 1 ♀ ( PT), 14 km S of Hotazel, 27° 19'S: 22°54'E, 14 7.iii. 1991, Londt & Whittington; GoogleMaps 1 ♀ ( PT), 20 Km N of Hotazel, 27°07'S: 22°59'E, 14.iii. 1991, Whittington & Londt; GoogleMaps I ♀ ( PT), 26 km E of Upington, 28°23'S: 21 °29'E, 16.iii. 1991, Whittington & Londt; GoogleMaps 2 ♂ 2♀ ( PT), 18 Km NNW of Marydale, 29° 15'S: 22°04'E, 18.iii. 1991, Whittington & Londt. GoogleMaps NAMIBIA: 2 ♂ 2 9 (PT), 28 km W Outjo, 20 12'S: 15 53'E, 24.iii. 1984, Londt & Stuckenberg; GoogleMaps 4 ♂ 2 ♀ ( PT), Gross Barmen Resort , 22°07'S: 16°42'E, 29.iii. 1984, Londt & Stuckenberg; GoogleMaps 2 ♂ 1 ♀ ( PT): 26 km N Windhoek, 22°20'S: 17°04'E, 29.iii. 1984, Londt & Stuckenberg; GoogleMaps 4 ♂ 3 ♀ ( PT), Okahandja , 21°59'S: 16°37'E, 28.iii. 1984, Londt & Stuckenberg; GoogleMaps 2 ♂ 2♀ ( PT), 28 km E Khorixas, 20016'S:15° 12'E, 24.iii. 1984, Londt & Stuckenberg; I ♀ ( PT), 54 Ian S Khorixas, 20043'S: 14°49'E, 26.iii. 1984, Londt & Stuckenberg; 1 ♂ ( PT), 13 km S of Windhoek, 2217CA, 18.iv. 1983, Stuckenberg & Londt; 6 ♂ 2 ♀ ( PT), Otavi [19°39'S: 17°20'E], 18.iii. 1988, Manning; GoogleMaps 1 ♂ ( PT), Windhoek [22°35'S: 17°05'E] Distr ., Farm Portsmut 33, 14-24.iv. 1972, Strydom & Jones; GoogleMaps 2 ♂ ( PT), Hardap dam [2417BD], Mariental Distr ., 10-14.iv.1972, Strydom & Jones; I ♂ I ♀ ( PT), Otjimbumbe [?], Kunene R. , iii. 1923, Mus. Exped . ( SAMC); 7♂ 1 ♀ ( PT), Kaross [ River - 19°30'S: 14°20'E], ii. 1925, Mus. Exped. ( SAMC); GoogleMaps 1 ♂ ( PT), Erikson's Drift [?], Kunene R. , iii. 1923, Mus. Exped. ( SAMC).

Etymology : Gr. di - two + morphe - form (refers to the sexual dimorphism displayed by this species) .

NMSA

South Africa, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Natal Museum

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

SAMC

South Africa, Cape Town, Iziko Museum of Capetown (formerly South African Museum)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

SubFamily

Stenopogoninae

Genus

Agrostomyia

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