Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971

Deeming, John C., 2022, Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described, European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1), pp. 121-144 : 124

Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971

Fig. 1a

Material examined

GUINEA • 5 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; Nimba , “Fôrét du Zié” [Zié Forest] ; 1500 m a.s.l.; 6 Jan. 1984; C. Girard leg.; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; NMWC .

Remarks

Described from a single male from the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria ( Deeming 1971: 173).

Female: apart from sexual characters differing from the male in the following respects: palpus black; scutellum black throughout; pleura black in ground colour with exception of propleuron and anterior one third of anepisternum; all tarsi infuscate; fore femur black on all but extreme base and apex; fore tibia black on apical two thirds of its length; a pair of brownish black spots on tergites 4 and 5, those on 4 longer and more triangular in shape, those on 5 oblong; tergite 8 ( Fig. 1a ).

Distribution

Guinea, Nigeria.

Figures

Fig. 1. a–c. Female eighth tergite, dorsal. a. Atherigona bifida Deeming, 1971. b. Atherigona contrastiloba Deeming, 1987. c. Atherigona nigrithorax Stein, 1906. d. Atherigona nigrithorax, preabdomen, dorsal.