Pedomyia, 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 : 88

Pedomyia gen. n.

Type species: Pedomyia epidema sp. n.

Description: Small to medium sized, dark brown, silver and/or gold pruinose stenopogonine asilids with the following combination of characters. Head ( Fig. 54 ): clearly wider than high in anterior view. Antenna: scape a little longer than pedicel, segment 3 a little longer than scape and pedicel combined, widening toward middle (in lateral view) before abruptly tapering to narrow apex, style cylindrical with terminal spine-like seta. Mystax shiny, occupying between! and entire face (slight facial protuberance associated with mystax); palpi 2-segmented. Thorax: postmetacoxal area membranous; anepimeral bristle absent; numerous scutellar macrosetae (marginal and on disc). Wing ( Fig. 56 ): ca. 3-5 mm long, transparent, immaculate, unifonn microtrichial cover, C extends around entire wing margin, cells m3 and cup open at wing margin. Legs: pulvilli and empodia well developed. Abdomen: somewhat elongate; ♂ terminalia unrotated or rotated up to 90°; ♂ epandrium short (shorter than gonocoxite), separated into two lobes from about} - 1 length from base; hypandrium moderately well developed with mediodistal lobe.

Variation: P. namibia sp. n. may be digeneric in that the antennae ( Fig. 57 ) and male genitalia ( Figs 73-75 ) do not entirely confonn in shape. The species is, therefore, tentatively assigned to Pedomyia pending further analysis.

Etymology: Gr. pedon n. ground, earth, soil + myia f. -fly (refers to the ground resting behaviour of congeners).

Figures

Figs 54-57. Pedomyia gen. n., ♂. 54-55. P. epidema sp. n. paratype (Strandfontein). 54. Head. 55. Antenna. 56. Wing - holotype. 57. P. namibia sp. n. antenna - paratype (28 km W Outjo). Scale lines = I mm.

Figs 73-84. Pedomyia gen. n., r:J genitalia. 73-75. P. namibia sp. n. paratype (28 km W Outjo). 73. Lateral. 74. Dorsal. 75. Ventral. 76-78. P. simba sp. n. paratype (15 km E Wellington). 76. Lateral. 77. Dorsal. 78. Ventral. 79-81. P. xalllhocera sp. n. paratype (20 km NE Springbok). 79. Lateral. 80. Dorsal. 81. Ventral. 82-84. P. zela sp. n. paratype (10 km N Tulbagh). 82. Lateral. 83. Dorsal. 84. Ventral. Scale lines = I mm.