Stylogaster nitens Brunetti, 1925

Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2012, A revision of Afrotropical species of Stylogaster Macquart (Diptera: Conopidae), with descriptions of twenty-one new species and an identification key, African Invertebrates 53 (1), pp. 267-267 : 319-320

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Stylogaster nitens Brunetti, 1925 View in CoL

Stylogaster nitens Brunetti, 1925: 111 View in CoL , 112 (Type locality: Ghana: “ Obuasi Ashanti ”).

Stylogaster parva Camras, 1955: 121 View in CoL , 122 (Type locality: “ Uganda: Kawanda ”).

Stylogaster nitidula Kröber, 1936: 262 View in CoL , 263 (Type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo: “ Elisabethville ”).

Material examined: ANGOLA: 1♂ 7 miles W Gabela, 16–18.iii.1972 ( BMNH). DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

OF THE CONGO: 1♂ Miss H. De Saeger, II/gd/11, 23.vi.1951, Réc. J. Verschuren. 1969; 1♂ Miss H. De

Saeger, II/ed/9, 22.vi.1951, Réc. J. Verschuren.1968; 1♂ Miss H. De Saeger, II/le/8, 9.ix.1952, H. De Saeger.

4040; 1♂ Miss H. De Saeger, II /fd/18, 26.vi.1951, Réc. H. De Saeger. 1981 (all MRAC). SOUTH AFRICA :

KwaZulu-Natal: 1♂ Ngoye forest between Eshowe & Empangeni, ii.1957, B.R. Stuckenberg ( NMSA) .

Distribution: Widely distributed in the Afrotropical Region. Records from Madagascar (as S. parva ) cannot be confirmed and may represent the very similar S. camrasi . Recently confirmed records of males are from Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, South Africa and Uganda. Records based on egg records from hosts, on females, or on males without investigation of the male terminalia, remain of uncertain validity because of the presence of several similiar species not recognised previously.