Helina mollis ( Stein, 1906 )

Couri, Márcia S. & Pont, Adrian C., 2018, The male terminalia of some African species of Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera, Muscidae), Zootaxa 4399 (2), pp. 233-247 : 239-240

Helina mollis ( Stein, 1906)

( Figs 28–31 )

Examined type material: Holotype not seen. A long series of males and females in the BMNH. One male from Kenya (Mt. Elgon, Forest Zone) dissected.

Diagnosis. Scutum dark brown-grey pollinose; postpedicel not more than 2.5 times as long as pedicel; palpus black; dorsocentrals 1+3; crossvein dm–cu not sigmoid; male terminalia small and not projecting.

Male terminalia. Sternite 5 longer than wide, with short setae on disc and two long preapical setae on each side ( Fig. 28 ); cercal plate and surstylus short ( Fig. 29 ); surstylus shorter than cercal plate in lateral view ( Fig. 30 ); phallapodeme short, epiphallus long and curved ( Fig. 31 ).

Notes. The species was originally described from South Africa in the genus Spilogaster Macquart, 1835 and was placed in Helina, subgenus Euspilaria Malloch, 1921 , by Emden (1951).

Figures

FIGURES 28–34. Helina mollis (Stein, 1906), male: (28) sternite 5, dorsal view; (29) cercal plate and surstylus, dorsal view; (30) cercal plate and surstylus, lateral view; (31) aedeagal complex, lateral view. Helina naivashensis Emden, 1951, stat. nov., paratype male:(32) sternite 5, dorsalview; (33) cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagal complex, lateral view; (34) cercal plate and surstylus, dorsal view; Scale bar 0.1 mm.