A revision of the Afrotropical species of Pachylophus Loew (Diptera: Chloropidae) and some related Ovoviviparous genera
Author
Deeming, John C.
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Pachylophus halteratus
Becker, 1910
(
Plate 8
, Figs 34, 35)
Pachylophus halteratus
Becker, 1910
: 394
Described from
Tanzania
and further reported from
Kenya
,
Zaire
and
Madagascar
. Dr. Ebejer has compared the specimen from Samaru listed below with the
holotype
and found it to compare perfectly.
Material
:
2♀
, (form with knob of haltere pale)
ETHIOPIA
:
Gojam Province
, swamp
1km
N. of most southerly point of
Tana
Lake, swamp,
27.iii.1995
, (
X1031
), M. v.
Tschirnhaus
(
ZSM
)
;
1♀
,
Welo Prov.
,
8.5km
N. of
Hayk
,
11°22'N
39°38'E
,
17.iii.1995
, (
X1020
),
M. von Tschirnhaus
(
ZSM
)
;
6♂
5♀
,
Gonder Prov.
,
Blue Nile
at T'is
Isat Fwafwate
waterfall,
28.iii.1995
, (
X1032
), M.v.
Tschirnhaus
(all in
ZSM
but 1 pair in
NMWC
)
;
1♂
1♀
, N.
NIGERIA
:
Bauchi
, pond with
Oryza barthii
,
1–12.iv.1990
,
J.C. Deeming
; 1♀, Zaria, Samaru,
18.i.1968
, J.C. Deeming;
1♀
,
ZIMBABWE
:
Harare
,
National Botanic Gardens
,
11.vi.1997
,
W. Rossi
(all in
NMWC
)
;
3♀
MADAGASCAR
:
Amparafaravola
(
O. du
Lac
Alaotra
), 1921,
R. Decary
;
1♀
,
Env
[irons]
de Tananarive
, 1924,
Waterlot
(all in
MNHN
)
.
Of Decary’s Madagascan material only a single female was correctly identified, the remainder standing under
lugens
and
fossulatus
.