Tongamya miranda Stuckenberg 1966
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Description
Etiology: mirandus (L.), meaning wonderful, strange, singular. This species was named for its spectacular, unique morphology.
Type Material: Male holotype (No. 1093, NMSA) and four male paratypes from same locality (BMNH; MRAC; USNM; NMSA) [not examined]: SOUTH AFRICA, KwaZulu-Natal, Tongaland, Ingwavuma District, Ndumu Game Reserve, rest camp (ca. 32º 17' E, 26º 55' S), 290 ft above sea level, at light trap, 1–4 December 1963, coll. B. R. & P. J. Stuckenberg.
Distribution: The material at hand extends the originally reported range of this species from KwaZulu-Natal northward to the Kruger National Park, Northern Province, South Africa (Fig. 13).
Description: Refer to original description (Stuckenberg 1966) for description of male, and Irwin & Stuckenberg (1972) for description of female.
Material Examined: SOUTH AFRICA, KwaZulu-Natal, 4 females, 32 km S. Ndumu Game Reserve camp [-27.2032º, +32.2481º], 29-XI-1971, hand netted, M. E. & B. J. Irwin, dry scrub forest, 100 m, (MEI 109138, MEIC; MEI 116616, SMWN; MEI 116617, NMSA; MEI 113930, NMNH); 3 males 1 female, Meseleni Mission Station [-27.3667º, +30.5167º], XII-1981, light trap, P.E. Reavell, (MEI 116613, MEIC; MEI 116614, NMSA; MEI 116615, NMSA; MEI 116619, NMSA); 2 females,Kosi Bay Nature Reserve [-26.9000º, +32.8667º], 30-XI-1982 to 2-XII-1982, J. G. H. Londt, D. Barraclough, B. R. Stuckenberg, open woodland, (MEI 116618, MEIC; MEI 116620, NMSA). Northern Province, 1 male, Kruger National Park, Nyandu Bush [-22.38º, +31.22º], 3-XII-1964, Kruger National Park Survey, L. Vári & J. Potgieter, (MEI 109137, TMSA).
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- Is part of
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF9B6A6AFFA1C42BFFDA145BFFACFFCC (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMSA, BMNH, MRAC
- Event date
- 1963-12-01
- Family
- Mydidae
- Genus
- Tongamya
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Stuckenberg
- Species
- miranda
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1963-12-01/04
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tongamya miranda Stuckenberg, 1966 sec. Irwin & Wiegmann, 2001
References
- STUCKENBERG, B. R. 1966. A remarkable new genus and species of Apioceridae in South Africa (Diptera). Revue du Zoologie par Botanie du Africa 73: 106 - 120.
- IRWIN, M. E. & STUCKENBERG, B. R. 1972. A description of the female, egg and first instar larva of Tongamya miranda, with notes on oviposition and the habitat of the species (Diptera: Apioceridae). Annals of the Natal Museum 21: 439 - 454.