Atherigona bifida Deeming 1971
Creators
- 1. Honorary Research Fellow, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, United Kingdom.
Description
Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971
Fig. 1a
Material examined
GUINEA • 5 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; Nimba, “Fôrét du Zié” [Zié Forest]; 1500 m a.s.l.; 6 Jan. 1984; C. Girard leg.; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; NMWC.
Remarks
Described from a single male from the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria (Deeming 1971: 173).
Female: apart from sexual characters differing from the male in the following respects: palpus black; scutellum black throughout; pleura black in ground colour with exception of propleuron and anterior one third of anepisternum; all tarsi infuscate; fore femur black on all but extreme base and apex; fore tibia black on apical two thirds of its length; a pair of brownish black spots on tergites 4 and 5, those on 4 longer and more triangular in shape, those on 5 oblong; tergite 8 (Fig. 1a).
Distribution
Guinea, Nigeria.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHN , NMWC
- Event date
- 1984-01-06
- Family
- Muscidae
- Genus
- Atherigona
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Deeming
- Species
- bifida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1984-01-06
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atherigona bifida Deeming, 1971 sec. Deeming, 2022
References
- Deeming J. C. 1971. Some species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera, Muscidae) from northern Nigeria, with special reference to those injurious to cereal crops. Bulletin of Entomological Research 61: 133 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300057527