Subgenus Africostigma Fischer, 1995

Africostigma Fischer, 1995: 677 (as subgenus of Orthostigma); Yu et al. 2016; Peris-Felipo and Belokobylskij 2020: 411.

Type species.

Orthostigma (Africostigma) karkloofense Fischer, 1995, by original designation (Figs 34, 35).

Material examined.

Holotype ( Orthostigma (Africostigma) karkloofense) South Africa: • ♀, Howick, Natal, Karkloof Forest, 19. ix. 1963 (Haeselbarth leg.) (ZSSM) .

Diagnosis.

This Afrotropical subgenus includes two species from South Africa and shares the main diagnostic characters with Orthostigma but differs from all other subgenera by having the first flagellar segment of antenna shorter than the second one.