Hoplistomerus, : Macquart, 1838

Londt, Jason G. H., 2007, A review of the genus Hoplistomerus Macquart, 1838 (Diptera: Asilidae: Laphriinae), African Invertebrates 48 (2), pp. 167-198 : 188

Key to species of Hoplistomerus

1 Notopleural macroseta(e) present; transverse scutellar groove absent (or weakly developed anterior of mid-length) ........................................................................ 2

– Notopleural macroseta absent; transverse scutellar groove present at mid-length .............................................................................................................................. 4

2 Face wider than eye in anterior view; prosternum with well-developed longish setae medially; microtrichia of cell m 3 as a broad band along posterior margin only; big flies (wing length> 11 mm) usually with golden abdominal setae covering much of tergites (entirely white only in furthest eastern records); ơ terminalia as in Figs 33–36 ; widely distributed across Africa, mainly north of the equator ........... ...................................................................................... serripes ( Fabricius, 1805)

– Face narrower than eye in anterior view; prosternum bare or with small weaklydeveloped setae medially; microtrichia of cell m 3 as a narrow band along posterior margin as well as a fairly extensive area posteroproximally; small to moderate sized flies (wing length <11 mm) with pale whitish setae covering abdominal terga .............................................................................................................................. 3

Figures

Figs 33–39. Hoplistomerus species, male terminalia: (33–36) H. serripes (Fabricius, 1805): (33, 34) Keta ơ, lateral and ventral, (35, 36) Khartoum holotype of auriventris Loew, 1858, lateral and ventral; (37–39) H. zelimina Speiser, 1910, Nguruma ơ: (37) lateral, (38) distal end of gonocoxite and gonostylus, (39) ventral. Scale lines = 1 mm.