Haematopota mephista Usher, 1965: 52 figs 8a, b and 9a.

Williams, Kirstin A. & Snyman, Louwrens Pieter, 2021, Tabanidae (Diptera) holotypes in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum collection: Part 1. Haematopota Meigen, 1803, African Invertebrates 62 (2), pp. 485-495 : 485

Haematopota mephista Usher, 1965: 52 figs 8a, b and 9a.

Holotype.

South Africa • ♀; [KwaZulu-Natal] Town Bush, Pietermaritzburg; Collectors: B & P Stuckenberg; NMSA-Dip 052789; type number 1896. Fig. 4A-E .

Current status.

Haematopota mephista Usher, 1965; original combination.

Remarks.

There is no collecting date for this specimen on the label, but the publication records it as December 1961. The location is recorded as Town Bush Valley in the publication. There are eight female and one male paratypes listed in the publication but no indication where they were deposited. They are not in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum collection. There are two other specimens with the same collecting information as the type that were identified by Usher in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum collection. The specimen is in poor condition - both wings and the abdomen are glued to a card pinned below the thorax. The head and both hindlegs are missing.

Figures

Figure 4. Haematopota mephista holotype A lateral B abdomen C wings and abdomen D, E wings. Scale bars: 4 mm (A); 3 mm (B, C); 2 mm (D, E).