Atherigona (Atherigona) marginifolia Emden, 1940

Deeming, John C. & Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H., 2024, A contribution to the knowledge of Namibian Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae), with the descriptions of four new species and two new subspecies, Zootaxa 5536 (4), pp. 501-535 : 517

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14239815
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scientific name	Atherigona (Atherigona) marginifolia Emden, 1940
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Atherigona (Atherigona) marginifolia Emden, 1940 View in CoL

Atherigona marginifolia Emden, 1940: 122 View in CoL , figs 13, 44; Deeming 1971: 163, figs 77, 78; Deeming 1979: 40, figs 20–22; Deeming & Overman 1987: 118; Dike 2003: 220 (distribution); Muller 2015: 884, fig. 19; Muller & Mostovski 2018: 351, fig. 7; Deeming 2019b: 91.

Material examined: 1♂, Mukwe District, Divuju : Okavango River, 18°04'04''S, 21°28'51''E, 01.i.1999, [ A.H.] Kirk-Spriggs, [E.] Marais & [D.J.] Mann, Malaise traps & sweeping GoogleMaps ; 1♂, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namib Desert Research Station, Kuiseb River, 23°33'45''S, 15°02'38''E, 420 m, 14–26.ii.1997, I. Kapofi & M.E. Irwin, Malaise trap sample in riparian vegetation GoogleMaps ; 3♂, Rundu District, Simanya : Okavango River, 17°33'17''S, 18°32'30''E, 23–24.i.1998, [ A.H.] Kirk-Spriggs & [E.] Marais, Malaise trap, primary woodland (all NMNW) GoogleMaps .

Remarks: 1♂ from Simanya (cited above) has all lobes of the trifoliate process black.

Distribution: (Afrotropical): Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia *, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.