Camarota angustifrons Bezzi, 1908

Riccardi, Paula Raile & Tschirnhaus, Michael Von, 2018, Revision of Camarota Meigen (Diptera: Chloropidae), with a new species from Uganda, Zootaxa 4526 (2), pp. 221-231 : 226-228

Camarota angustifrons Bezzi, 1908

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Bezzi, 1908: 179–180; Becker, 1910a: 381, 410–411 (as synonym of C. “ curvinervis ”, 1 specimen from Kenya); Becker 1910b: 410–411 (1♂ Katona, Tanzania as Oscinis curvinervis ; Becker, 1915: 178–179 (reactivated from synonymy); Sabrosky, 1951: 720 (taxonomy, key, 3 specimens from Ruwenzori, Uganda); Lamb, 1917: 48 (1 specimen in Museum Cambridge from Durban in South Africa); Sabrosky, 1955: 309 (1 female from Rumonge in Burundi); Deeming, 1981: 790–793, 820 (three specimens reared from shoots of Panicum and Andropogon in Nigeria, key, figs. of terminalia and larva); Ferrar, 1987: 115, 119, 619 (details after Deeming); Spencer, 1985: 179 (cephalopharyngeal skeleton compared).

Material examined: 1 ♀ Kenya, Rift Valley , Ol Arabe Gorge, 18.xi.1988, R. K. Butlin [ NMWZ] (photo) .

Comments. This species described from Massaua, Ethiopia, the city at the Red Sea today in Eritrea, was long time considered as a synonym of the European C. curvipennis (as curvinervis auctt.). But already Becker (1915) recognized the taxon as a valid species. Sabrosky (1951) distinguished it in a key from the Palaearctic species.

Distribution. Eritrea, Kenya *, Nigeria, Rwanda–Burundi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Camarota species. 1A; 1C, C. curvipennis habitus. 1B, C. curvipennis antenna (modified from Balachowsky & Mesnil, 1935). 2, C. angustifrons habitus. 3, C. ugandae sp. nov. habitus. 4, C. cylindrica habitus. Scale bar 1 mm. The arrow points to the transverse stripe on the third aristomere.

FIGURES 5–14. Camarota species. 5–8, head in dorsal view. 5, C. curvipennis. 6, C. ugandae sp. nov. 7, C. cylindrica. 8, C. angustifrons. 9, C. ugandae sp. nov., scutellum. 10–14, wing. 10, C. curvipennis. 11; 14, C. ugandae sp. nov. 12; 13, C. cylindrica.