Atherigona (Atherigona) mitrata Séguy, 1955

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 : 518

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DE387F74-0C64-4F14-B276-A6A9EB1C3258

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14239823

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EE30F675-2C67-FF82-A7F7-110039F9A389

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scientific name

Atherigona (Atherigona) mitrata Séguy, 1955
status

 

Atherigona (Atherigona) mitrata Séguy, 1955 View in CoL

Atherigona mitrata Séguy, 1955: 164 View in CoL ; Deeming 1971: 156, figs 42–46; Dike 2003: 220 (distribution); Muller 2015: 885, fig. 41.

Material examined: 1♀, Kavango, Popa Falls , 18°07'S, 21°04'E, 26.ii–01.iii.1992, E. Marais & M. Pusch, light trap ( NMNW) GoogleMaps .

Remarks: Immature stages were described both by Deeming (1971: 156, puparium) and Skidmore (1985: 300, puparium).

Distribution: (Afrotropical): Cameroon, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Host-plants: Desho grass, Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin., Napier grass, Cenchrus purpureus (as Pennisetum purpureum ) and Hyparrhenia cyanescens (Stapf) Stapf (all Poaceae ).

NMNW

National Museum of Namibia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Atherigona

Loc

Atherigona (Atherigona) mitrata Séguy, 1955

Deeming, John C. & Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H. 2024
2024
Loc

Atherigona mitrata Séguy, 1955: 164

Muller, B. S. 2015: 885
Dike, M. C. 2003: 220
Deeming, J. C. 1971: 156
Seguy, E. 1955: 164
1955
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