Diopsis longicornis : Macquart 1835
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Diopsis longicornis: Macquart 1835: 486 (Type locality: ‘Guinée’ and Senegal); Steyskal 1972: 9; Feijen 1987: 410, 413.
Diopsis thoracica Westwood, 1837 a: 306 (Type locality: West Africa).
Diopsis phlogodes Hendel, 1923: 37 (Type locality: Kenya).
Distribution: Most of sub-Saharan Africa, including Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Notes: Diopsis longicornis is a well-known rice stem borer, easily recognised by its large and robust built, dorsally pruinose collar, glossy black scutum, with a little pruinosity in the anterior tip, pruinose faciae anteriorly of intrascutal suture and anteriorly of scutellum, red pruinose scutellum, only some infuscation at wing apex, surstylus in lateral view a quarter circle, slightly broader apically with only microtrichia and setulae on apical section, rectangular female sternum 7 and broad cerci.
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- Journal article: 10.5733/afin.053.0107 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7917621 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- : Macquart
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Diopsidae
- Genus
- Diopsis
- Species
- longicornis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diopsis longicornis Macquart, 1835 sec. Feijen & Feijen, 2012
References
- MACQUART, J. 1835. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Dipteres. Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret.
- STEYSKAL, G. 1972. A catalogue of species and key to the genera of the family Diopsidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 234: 1 - 20.
- WESTWOOD, J. O. 1837 a. On Diopsis, a genus of dipterous insects, with descriptions of twenty-one species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 17: 283 - 313, pl. 9.
- HENDEL, F. 1923. Afrikanische Diopsiden (Diptera). Wiener entomologische Zeitung 40: 33 - 42.