Atherigona (Atherigona) corrugata Deeming, 1979

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 : 509

Atherigona (Atherigona) corrugata Deeming, 1979

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Atherigona corrugata Deeming, 1979: 34 , fig. 6; Dike 2003: 219 (distribution); Deeming 2022: 125.

Previous record: Katima Mulilo District , Salambala pan, 17°50'00''S, 24°35'58''E ( Deeming 2022: 125) .

Material examined: 2♀, Katima Mulilo District , Salambala pan, 17°50'00''S, 24°35'58''E, 23–27.xii.2002, Malaise trap, A . H. & M.K. Kirk-Spriggs (1♀, NMNW; 1♀, NMWC) .

Distribution: (Afrotropical): Namibia and Nigeria. Described from a single male collected from a wheat plot on an irrigation system bordering Lake Chad, two additional Nigerian females have been examined from “Samaru, Zaria collected 29.i.1969 ” and “ 13.vii.1985 ” (deposited in NMNW).

Description: From the two above cited females the following description is composed. Female resembling male, differing from it, apart from sexual differences, in the following respects: antenna more extensively infuscate, only yellow in basal 1 / 2 of inner surface of postpedicel. Fore leg black on tibia and tarsus and also apical 1 / 2 of femur. Tergite 8 ( Fig. 25 ) uniformly brown throughout, divided into usual 3 basal lobes, with usual pair of separated sclerites linear in form, emarginations between 3 lobes wide basally, extending for 1 / 3 length of segment, median lobe shorter than lateral lobes with margin slightly incurved.

Figures

FIGURES 24–28. Female terminalia (tergite 8) of Atherigona spp., dorsal views. 24. A. (s. str.) angulata Deeming. 25. A. (s. str.) corrugata Deeming. 26. A. (s. str.) maraisi Deeming, sp. nov. 27. A. (s. str.) parvihumilata Muller. 28. A. (s. str.) pulla (Wiedemann). All not to scale.