Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971

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 : 124

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:880CEE9A-25B5-4620-90D2-D109E949059E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7387428

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF-4940-3E51-FDCD-FEB65D84D58E

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Felipe

scientific name

Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971
status

 

Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971 View in CoL

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Material examined

GUINEA • 5 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; Nimba , “Fôrét du Zié” [Zié Forest] ; 1500 m a.s.l.; 6 Jan. 1984; C. Girard leg.; MNHN 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; NMWC .

Remarks

Described from a single male from the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria ( Deeming 1971: 173).

Female: apart from sexual characters differing from the male in the following respects: palpus black; scutellum black throughout; pleura black in ground colour with exception of propleuron and anterior one third of anepisternum; all tarsi infuscate; fore femur black on all but extreme base and apex; fore tibia black on apical two thirds of its length; a pair of brownish black spots on tergites 4 and 5, those on 4 longer and more triangular in shape, those on 5 oblong; tergite 8 ( Fig. 1a View Fig ).

Distribution

Guinea, Nigeria.

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

NMWC

United Kingdom, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Atherigona

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