Pachylophus halteratus Becker, 1910

Deeming, John C., 2018, A revision of the Afrotropical species of Pachylophus Loew (Diptera: Chloropidae) and some related Ovoviviparous genera, Zootaxa 4482 (1), pp. 1-51 : 12

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 .

Figures

PLATE 8. Figs 32–37. Pachylophus spp. 32, P. beckeri Curran, frons; 33, same habitus; 34, P. halteratus Becker, frons; 35, same, habitus; 36, P. inornatus Loew, frons; 37, same, habitus.