Exoprosopa tuckeri Bezzi, 1921

Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 1149 (1), pp. 1-88 : 74-75

Exoprosopa tuckeri Bezzi

Exoprosopa tuckeri Bezzi, 1921a: 169 .

Distribution. Namibia , Zimbabwe.

Material examined. 3♂♂, 3♀♀, Rundu District, Mile 46, 18°18’39”S 19°15’29”, 25–27.iii.2003, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs, Malaise trap ; 1♂, Otjiwene District, Epukiro River at 21°24’27”S 20°16’29”E, 9.ii.2001, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs ; 1♂, Gobabis District, Somerkoms 521, 22°01’59”S 19°57’22”E, 6–8.ii.2001, Kirk­Spriggs, Marais & Wheeler, Malaise trap sample .

Notes. The hitherto undescribed female is similar to the male, including width of vertex, except that the wing pattern is sexually dimorphic. Like E. sigmoidea the dimidiate infuscation of the male is extended obliquely in an almost parallel sided projection from the end of R 1 to the anterior end of the interradial cross­vein thence to M 2 midway between cell dm and the wing margin on the outer side and on the inner side from the posterior end of m­m forward across the apex of dm to meet the dimidiate infuscation in cell r 5. The prolongation of the infuscation is thus more rectangular than that of E. sigmoidea females and does not extend to cell m 1 but slightly more of the axillary cell is infuscated.