Syllegomydas Notobates Hesse, 1969

Dikow, Torsten, 2010, New species and new records of Mydidae from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Insecta, Diptera, Asiloidea), ZooKeys 64, pp. 33-75 : 57

Syllegomydas Notobates Hesse, 1969

Hesse (1969: 274) described the subgenus Notobates to accommodate two species, Syllegomydas arnoldi Bequaert, 1938 and Syllegomydas rhodesiensis Bequaert, 1938, from Mozambique and Zimbabwe and provided a key to the species. He did not place Syllegomydas dispar (Loew, 1852), also from Mozambique, in this subgenus, because he had not studied specimens of this species. Having studied the type specimens of Syllegomydas dispar at the ZMHB as well as additional specimens from several collections, it becomes clear that this species should also be placed in Syllegomydas (Notobates) based, for example, on the undulating vein A1 and the long antennae (longer than scutum). Both Hesse (1969: 295) and Bowden (1980: 333) listed Syllegomydas dispar as Syllegomydini incertae sedis. Therefore, this species is here re-described and illustrated to allow identification in the future.