Atherigona (Atherigona) gilvifolia 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 : 511

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14239769
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scientific name	Atherigona (Atherigona) gilvifolia Emden, 1940
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Atherigona (Atherigona) gilvifolia Emden, 1940 View in CoL

Atherigona gilvifolia Emden, 1940: 125 View in CoL , figs 28, 52; Deeming 1971: 168, figs 96–100; Deeming 1979: 44; Deeming 1987: 19; Deeming & Overman 1987: 117; Dike 2003: 219 (distribution); Muller 2015: 872, fig. 65.

Material examined: 1♂, West Caprivi Park, Buffalo Base , 18°08'S, 21°41'E, 03–05.iv.1990, E. Marais ( NMNW) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: (Afrotropical): Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia *, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda; (Palaearctic): Saudi Arabia.

Host-plants: Finger millet, Eleusine coracana Gaertn. and Indian goosegrass, E. indica (L.) Gaertn. ( Poaceae ).

Parasitoid: Apotetrastichus Graham sp. ( Hymenoptera : Eulophidae ), reared from larva ex Eleusine indica in northern Nigeria.