The Genus Daspletis Loew, 1858 And The Description Of Two New Genera, Anasillomos And Remotomyia (Diptera: Asilidae: Stenopogoninae) Author Londt, Jason G. H. text Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 1983 46 2 283 308 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11781 journal article 20977 10.5281/zenodo.11781 6b65c744-3a8a-4590-b6d1-bf748172b5c7 12008 B9781793-EDAD-4863-B31E-C1200459ADDB Daspletis setithoracicus ( Ricardo, 1925 ) comb. nov. Figs 19-21 Neodysmachus setithoracicus Ricardo, 1925: 264-265 Redescription: Based on the type series and other material examined. Head: Antenna orange-yellowg scape and pedicel with white bristles and setae, shape similar to ìzímzs. Face brown-yellow, profile similar to kiftus . Mystax composed of long white bristles and setae. Vertex similar to kirius with lots of long white setae. Ocellarium with numerous shiny white setae (no obvious bristles). Occiput similar to /zirtus but dorso-medial bristles straight and shortish, not long and sinuous. Proboscis red-brown with white setae ventrally. Palp yellowish with white setae. Thorax: Pleura brown, strongly gold-silver pruinose, moderately well covered in white setae. Katatergite with ca . 30 long, thin white setae. Antepronotum with yellow-white thin bristles and white setae. Anatergite as in hirtus . Mesonotum similar to hirius and with similar setation. Dorsocentrals all yellow, moderately well developed; cluster of yellowish setae posteriorly between dorsocentrals similar to hirtus . 6-8 Scutellar bristles; disc with fine white-yellow setae only. Halters yellowa Legs: brown-yellow and only slightly darker on upper sides of femora; bristles and setae longish yellow. Claws black with orange bases; pulvillae poorly developed, less than half as long as claws. Wings: Lectotype ♂ 8,2 X 2,7 mm ; others range 7,9 X 2,4 - 9,5 X 3,1 mm ; membrane transparent, colourless; venation orange-brown. Cell r5 widely open, m3. closed and stalked, cup closed on wing margin. Abdomen: Yellow terga with yellow lateral margins; sterna yellow; all segments with moderately long white setae, only tg 1 with bristles (yellow). ♂ genitalia as in Figs 19-21 ; fused gonocoxites laterally flattened. ♀ with setae of segments 5-7 anteriorly directed. Variation: ♀ specimens less setose and with bristles of mystax etc. yellower than ♂ . MATERIAL Examined. SOUTH AFRICA : Cape Province : 2 ♂ 3 ♀ ( lectotype ♂ and paralectotypes ), Willowmore , 25. xii. 1922 (2 ♂), xi. 1 9 22 (3 ♀), Dr Brauns ( BMNH ) : 15 ♂ 7 ♀ , Willowmore , various dates - 1. xii. 19 07 , xii. 1909 , 2 0. xii. 19 0 9 , 15.xii. 1912 , i. 1914 , xi1916 , 25. xii. 1 9 17 , i. 1918 , xi. 1918 , 2 0. xii. 1 9 19 , 25. xii. 1919 , 1.i.1920 , 2 0. xi. 192 0 , 18..1922 , 18.v. 1922 , 3.i.1926 , xi. 1 9 26 , Dr Brauns ( NM ); 2 ♂ 2 ♀ , Meiringspoort , 3322 BC, 11-12. xii. 1979 , Londt & Stuckenberg , Rocky hillside & stream edge ( NM ) ; 1 ♀ , Diepkloof ca. 20 km E. de Rust , 3322 BD, 12.xii. 1979 , J. Londt & B. Stuckenberg , Dry rocky hillside & stream ( NM ). Orange Free State : 1♂ , Bloemfontein , 31.x.1920 , H. E. Irving ( NM ) . Figs 19- 21. Daspletis setithoracicus (Ricardo) lectotype male genitalia. 19 . Lateral. 20. Ventral. 2 1. Dorsal. Remarks: A species active for most of the summer ( Table 1 ).