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Atherigona chrysohypene Muller 2015

  • 1. Department of Terrestrial Invertebrates, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Description

Atherigona chrysohypene Muller, 2015

Fig. 5

Atherigona chrysohypene Muller, 2015: 863, fig. 46.

Material examined.

Lesotho • 4 ♂; Mamathes [Masupha], Basutoland; [29 ° 8.000 ' S, 27 ° 51.000 ' E]; 16 May 1948; C. Jacot Guillarmod leg. (AMGS) • 1 ♂; Masupha, Basutoland; [29 ° 8.000 ' S, 27 ° 51.000 ' E]; 24 May 1948; C. Jacot Guillarmod leg. (AMGS) • 1 ♂; Mamathes [Masupha], Basutoland; [29 ° 8.000 ' S, 27 ° 51.000 ' E]; 30 May 1948; C. Jacot Guillarmod leg. (AMGS) • 2 ♂; Mamathes [Masupha], Basutoland; [29 ° 8.000 ' S, 27 ° 51.000 ' E]; 10 Jun. 1948; C. Jacot Guillarmod leg. (AMGS).

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to A. pulla and A. angulata due to its golden yellow vibrissa. However, it can be distinguished from both by its bilobate hypopygial prominence (Fig. 5), while A. pulla and A. angulata have the hypopygial prominence knoblike (e. g. Fig. 4).

Distribution.

Lesotho (new record), South Africa.

Notes

Published as part of Magoai, Mokome M. J. & Muller, Burgert S., 2024, The first record of Atherigona from Lesotho (Diptera, Muscidae), with description of a new species, pp. 49-60 in African Invertebrates 65 (2) on pages 49-60, DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.65.131744

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMGS
Event date
1948-05-16 , 1948-05-24 , 1948-05-30 , 1948-06-10
Verbatim event date
1948-05-16 , 1948-05-24 , 1948-05-30 , 1948-06-10
Scientific name authorship
Muller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Atherigona
Species
chrysohypene
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atherigona chrysohypene Muller, 2015 sec. Magoai & Muller, 2024

References

  • Muller BS (2015) Illustrated key and systematics of male South African Atherigona s. str. (Diptera: Muscidae). African Invertebrates 56 (3): 845 - 918. https: // doi. org / 10.10520 / EJC 183859