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Musca tempestatum

Description

Musca tempestatum (Bezzi, 1908)

Diagnosis: Eye bare; proboscis with long labella; ca 7 pairs of frontal setae; anterior spiracle dark brown; dorsocentral setae 1+3; postalar ridge without setulae; proepisternal depression bare; scutum brown with grey pollinosity and 2 dark brown vittae behind suture; dorsocentral setae 1+3; fore tibia with 1 posterior seta in apical half.

Material examined: NAMIBIA: Kunene: ƚƃ 2SXZR, 2QGMDPX +LOO, ƚ7°48‵6 ƚƻ°ƽo‵(, ƻ8.LL.ƚ99Ϭ, (. 0DUDLV & A.H. Kirk-Spriggs (NMNW).

Distribution: Widespread in continental Afrotropical Region, except Congo Basin.

Notes

Published as part of Couri, Márcia Souto, de Carvalho, Claudio J. B. & Pont, Adrian C., 2012, Taxonomy of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Namibia: a key to genera, diagnoses, new records and description of a new species, pp. 47 in African Invertebrates 53 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5733/afin.053.0103, http://zenodo.org/record/7918268

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bezzi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Musca
Species
tempestatum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Musca tempestatum (Bezzi, 1908) sec. Couri, Carvalho & Pont, 2012

References

  • BEZZI, M. 1908. Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika ausgefuhrt in den Jahren 1903 - 1905 mit Unterstutzung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von Dr. Leonhard Schultze, Professor der (UGNXQGH DQ GHU 8 QLYHUVLWlW - HQD. (UVWHU % DQG: 6 \ VWHPDWLN XQG 7 KLHUJHRJUDSKLH. Ϭ. 6 LPXOLLGDH, Bombyliidae, Empididae, Syrphidae, Tachinidae, Muscidae, Phycodromidae, Borboridae, Trypetidae, Ephydridae, Drosophilidae, Geomyzidae, Agromyzidae, Conopidae. Denkschriften der medizinisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 13: 179 - 201.