Exoprosopa fissicornis Bezzi, 1924

Greathead, David J. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2004, New species of Bombylioidea in Mario Bezzi’s Unpublished Hungarian Museum Manuscript, Zootaxa 773, pp. 1-56 : 39

Exoprosopa fissicornis Bezzi, 1924

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95. Exoprosopa (Exoprosopa) fissicornis 1Ψ Tanzania: Mto­ya­Kifaru, 5–10.xii.1904 (Katona). MS page [94].

Bezzi, 1924: 350 – key and diagnosis; 1ɗ Kenya: Serengeti Plains, Mbuyuni, 24.v.1916 (T.J. Anderson) in BMNH.

Greathead, 2001a: 141 – BMNH syntype examined; key to species group, diagnosis and figures from Kenya specimens.

Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 361 – listed one syntype in BMNH.

Types: The syntype in HNHM was destroyed. The syntype in BMNH from Kenya is the only surviving syntype and is here designated lectotype ( Fig. 24).

Remarks: Exoprosopa fissicornis is readily recognised by the bifurcation at the apex of the antenna. Greathead (2001a) provided a detailed diagnosis that supplements the characters in Bezzi (1924).