Dasophrys umbripennis Londt, 1981

Londt, Jason G. H., 2020, A survey of grassland Asilidae (Diptera) at Jacana Eco Estate, Hilton, South Africa, African Invertebrates 61 (1), pp. 29-48 : 29

11. Dasophrys umbripennis Londt, 1981

Remarks.

This species was originally described mainly from the Pietermaritzburg district ( Londt 1981).

A single adult male was collected in week 28.

This distinctive species was swept from long grass. Its patterned wings are almost certainly an adaptation to forest or forest margin habitats, i.e. Londt’s (1994) ecological category 5b (within shrubs and bushes) and so the Jacana specimen was certainly out of its previously recorded ‘preferred’ habitat.