Euscelidia discors Speiser, 1913

Dikow, Torsten, 2003, Revision of the genus Euscelidia Westwood, 1850 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae), African Invertebrates 44 (2), pp. 1-131 : 54

Euscelidia discors Speiser, 1913

Euscelidia discors Speiser, 1913: 141 ; Hermann 1926: 147; Hull 1962: 305; Oldroyd 1980: 356.

Type material - The 1^ 3ơơ syntypes have to be considered lost. I was unable to locate the depository for the type specimens. The concept of discors remains unclear and no neotype designation is possible at this stage.

Type locality ( Fig. 16 ): Cameroon, Douala , 402'N 9 42'E .

Remarks: Speiser’s description is very poor in providing information that is useful for the identification of the species. Generally, many species would fit that description. There is a specimen deposited in the ZSMC that was identified as E. discors by E. O. Engel, but it is a representative of E. procula - this might direct to a probable synonymy of the two species with procula then being the senior synonym. Although I examined many specimens of Euscelidia from Cameroon I am not in the position to make further comments about this species. The type locality is plotted in Fig. 16 .

Figures

Fig. 16. Distribution. Euscelidia anthrax, triangles; E. bequaerti, circles; E. bicolor, squares; E. bishariensis, stars; E. discors, pentagon; E. fastigium, hexagon.