Dacus mochii Bezzi, 1917

Meyer, Marc De, White, Ian M. & F. M. Goodger, Kim, 2013, Notes on the frugivorous fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) fauna of western Africa, with description of a new Dacus species, European Journal of Taxonomy 50, pp. 1-17 : 13

Dacus mochii Bezzi, 1917

Dacus mochii was described from Eritrea, but the type specimens were lost. White (2006) placed it in synonymy with D. annulatus Becker , based on the similarity of the original description. Subsequently, White & Goodger (2009) reported a specimen from Ethiopia, which was clearly not D. annulatus , but was a good match to the description of D. mochii , which they then removed from synonymy. Amongst the material examined here, there was a male specimen from Kloto, Togo (Mar. 2006, leg. G. Goergen), which is very similar to the D. mochii from Ethiopia, except that it has pallid face spots. Togo is a considerable westward expansion of the known distribution of a species otherwise known only from a restricted area of East Africa. Since it concerns a single specimen whose identity is uncertain, we excluded it from the richness analysis.