Aethiopomyia gigas
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Muscidae
Genus: Aethiopomyia
Name
Aethiopomyia gigas (Stein, 1906) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Syntypes
1 ♂, 2 ♀ (see Pont and Werner 2006[1]: 51 for details)
Diagnosis
Length of body. 11.0–15.0 mm (♂♀). Similar to A. arguta, differing as follows: Head. Frons, fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, face, and gena reddish yellow, silver pruinose under certain lights. Palpus yellow. Thorax. Scutum ground color yellow, four broad black vittae laterally and one median white-silver pruinose vitta. Scutum laterally yellow, scutellum yellow. Pleurae mostly yellow; anepisternum and anepimeron mostly dark brown, Lower calypter broad, ca. 2.5 × as long as the upper one. Haltere yellow. Calypters yellowish with brown margins. Legs. Color and chaetotaxy as in A. arguta. Abdomen. Almost all black, with some grey pruinescence along the margins of the tergites, under certain lights. Abdominal sternites with strong setae. Sternite 5 quadrangular with two strong setae at middle (Fig. 21). Terminalia ♂. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Figs 22 and 23; aedeagus as in Figs 24 and 25. Ovipositor as in Figs 26 and 27; only two spermathecae found (Fig. 28). Larva. One big larva found in ♀ abdomen (Fig. 29); detail of spiracle as in Fig. 30. Cuthbertson (1938 in Skidmore 1985[2]) recorded that the ♀ deposits a single late instar larva.
Note
The species was keyed by Zumpt (1969)[3]. One ♂ and one ♀ (not types) from Spanish Guinea were dissected and illustrated. ♂: Uellebg. Benitogbt. /15–31.i.07 / G. Tessmann S. G.; ♀: Alou Benitogbt/16–31.vii.06/ Tessmann S. G. Recently, O’Hara et al. (2013)[4] transferred Paleotachina Townsend from Tachinidae to Muscidae and placed in synonymy with Aethiopomyia and Paleotachina smithii Townsend, type species of Paleotachina, was synonymized with A. gigas.
Taxon Treatment
- de Sousa, V; Pereira, A; Couri, M; 2020: On Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae) with the revision of the type specimens deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (Germany) with a key to species ZooKeys, 926: 73-80. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Pont A, Werner D (2006) The types of Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Mitteilungen aus den Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe.82: 3–139. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.200600001
- ↑ Skidmore P (1985) The biology of the Muscidae of the world. Dr. W.Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, Series Entomologica29: 14–550.
- ↑ Zumpt F (1969) Notes on the genus Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera: Muscidae) with a new species from Tanzania.Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa32: 163–167.
- ↑ O’Hara E, Raper C, Pont A, Whitmore D (2013) Reassessment of Paleotachina Townsend and Electrotachina Townsend and their removal from the Tachinidae (Diptera).ZooKeys361: 27–36. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.361.6448
