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Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi van Emden 1940

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Terrestrial Invertebrates, National Museum, 36 Aliwal Street, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa
  • 2. Albany Museum, Department of Entomology and Arachnology, 40 Somerset Street, Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa & Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, 6139, South Africa & National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa

Description

Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi van Emden, 1940

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Atherigona bedfordi van Emden, 1940: 120, figs 27, 55; Pont 1991: 339; Deeming 2000: 284; Dike 2003: 219 (distribution); Muller 2015: 860, fig. 42; Deeming and Kirk-Spriggs 2024: 506. Atherigona humeralis Wiedemann, 1830: 441, sensu Hennig 1964: 497 et auctt., non Skidmore 1985: 313, nec Pont (1986: 113).

Distribution.

Afrotropical Region: Angola, Chad, The Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, and Sudan. Palaearctic Region: Egypt, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia.

Notes

Published as part of Magoai, Mokome M. J., Muller, Burgert S. & Bellingan, Terence A., 2025, A contribution to the Atherigona (Diptera, Muscidae) fauna of Angola, pp. 209-227 in African Invertebrates 66 (2) on pages 209-227, DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.66.160212

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4E0F542F00735D0F879495DD6DFDE16B

Cites
Publication: 10.5733/afin.056.0301 (DOI)
Publication: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.4.1 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1071/AJZS120 (DOI)
Figure: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.66.160212.figures8-19 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1380732 (URL)
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Journal article: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.66.160212 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1601E0822F285BB1A31BE43EC31A56DC (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/F13590C8-DF9A-4EA6-A1A4-FFD184EFCA82 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4E0F542F00735D0F879495DD6DFDE16B (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/266889991 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/311250/taxon/4E0F542F00735D0F879495DD6DFDE16B.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
van Emden
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Atherigona
Species
bedfordi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi Emden, 1940 sec. Magoai, Muller & Bellingan, 2025

References

  • Van Emden FI (1940) Muscidae: B - Coenosiinae. British Museum (Natural History) Ruwenzori Expedition 1934 - 35. Vol. 2. No 4. British Museum (Natural History), London, 91 - 255.
  • Pont AC (1991) A review of the Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 12: 312–365.
  • Deeming JC (2000) Muscidae: Atherigonini (Diptera: Muscoidea). Cimbebasia Memoir 9: 283–287.
  • Dike MC (2003) Distributional patterns of Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae). Cimbebasia 19: 215–221.
  • 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/10.5733/afin.056.0301
  • Deeming JC, Kirk-Spriggs AH (2024) A contribution to the knowledge of Namibian Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae), with the descriptions of four new species and two new subspecies. Zootaxa 5536 (4): 501–535. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5536.4.1
  • Wiedemann CRW (1830) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten Volume 2. Schulzischen Buchhandlung, Hamm, [xii +] 684 pp.
  • Hennig W (1964) 63 b Muscidae. In: Lindner E (Ed.) Die Fliegen der paläarktischen Region. 7 (2). E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Erwin Nägele, Stuttgart, 254–362.
  • Skidmore P (1985) The biology of the Muscidae of the world. Series Entomologica 29. Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, [xiv +] 550 pp.
  • Pont AC (1986) Studies on Australian Muscidae (Diptera) VII. The genus Atherigona Rondani. Australian Journal of Zoology, supplementary series 120: 1–90. https://doi.org/10.1071/AJZS120