Notolegnotus brevis Greathead and Evenhuis, 2001

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), African Invertebrates 42 (1820), pp. 105-224 : 164

Notolegnotus brevis Greathead and Evenhuis sp. n.

Material examined: Holotype ^. NAMIBIA: 36 km S Khorixas Road 76, 20 ° 34'S 14 ° 52'E, 26.iii.1984 (Stuckenberg & Londt) (roadside flowering shrubs (purple)) (in NMSA).

Description: Head: Black except for oral cavity, brown. Hair on occiput translucent whitish, that on ocellar triangle and face gleaming gold, scales gold. Antennae brown. Proboscis dark brown. Thorax: Brown, darker on dorsal surface of mesonotum. Hair fine colourless, scales gold denser in three poorly indicated longitudinal stripes on mesonotum. Legs: Femora brown, tibiae and tarsi yellow, spicules and scales yellow-gold. Wing: Hyaline with a feint smoky infuscation in the basal half of cells r 1, r 2+3 and br, and also the extreme base of discal cell. Veins brown. Halter yellow with a paler ivory knob. Abdomen: Brown and with margins and reflexed sides of terga 1–6 yellow, sterna yellow. First tergum with short fine white hair, remainder with sparse gold scales.