identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03B387EF49413E50FDFCFD5F5E0BD2DA.text	03B387EF49413E50FDFCFD5F5E0BD2DA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona africana Deeming 1971	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) africana Deeming, 1971</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>BURKINA FASO • 2 ♂♂; Bobo Dioulasso, Farako Bâ; Jul.–Nov. 1989; J. Zongo leg.; fish meal bait in sorghum plot; NMWC.</p> <p>MALI • 1 ♂; Yanfolila; 19 Sep.–7 Oct. 1986; J. Durham leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described from both sexes and illustrated from the male. The species was collected in Nigeria (Deeming, 1971: 149–151, figs 24–25).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49413E50FDFCFD5F5E0BD2DA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49413E50FE1CFB445E9AD158.text	03B387EF49413E50FE1CFB445E9AD158.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona angustiloba van Emden 1956	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) angustiloba van Emden, 1956</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>ETHIOPIA • 2 ♂♂; Alemaya; Sep. 1992; S. Gudeta leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>GUINEA • 1 ♂; Nimba; Jul.–Dec. 1951; Lamotte and Roy leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♂; E of Cape Province, Hogsback N of Alice; 2–3 Nov. 1964; B. and P. Stuckenberg leg.; NMSA • 1 ♂; Natal, Richmond; 22 Nov.1973; F. Zumpt leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described (van Emden 1956: 521) from Burundi and further recorded from South Africa (Muller 2015: 859). The Ethiopian material is unusual in that the fore tibia is yellow throughout its length rather than being infuscated on its apical half.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Burundi, Ethiopia, Guinea, South Africa.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49413E50FE1CFB445E9AD158	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49413E50FDBAFD8E5E37D4B3.text	03B387EF49413E50FDBAFD8E5E37D4B3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona Rondani 1856	<div><p>Genus Atherigona Rondani, 1856</p> <p>Type species</p> <p>Anthomyia varia Meigen, 1826.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49413E50FDBAFD8E5E37D4B3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49403E51FDCDFEB65D84D58E.text	03B387EF49403E51FDCDFEB65D84D58E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona bifida Deeming 1971	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971</p> <p>Fig. 1a</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described from a single male from the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria (Deeming 1971: 173).</p> <p>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).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Guinea, Nigeria.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49403E51FDCDFEB65D84D58E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49403E51FE10FC105D55D14E.text	03B387EF49403E51FE10FC105D55D14E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona contrastiloba Deeming 1987	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) contrastiloba Deeming, 1987</p> <p>Fig. 1b</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>MADAGASCAR • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Toliara (Tulear) Distr., Betioky, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=45.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-24.133333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 45.25/lat -24.133333)">Beamalo</a>; 24°08ʹ S, 45°15ʹ E; 21 Feb. 1993; C.C.D. Tingle leg.; NMWC • 6 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 14 Feb. 1993; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described from the male sex from Madagascar (Deeming 1987: 23) and additional material (males only) also from several localities in Madagascar was reported by Deeming (2019).</p> <p>Female: apart from sexual differences differing from the male in the following respects: all tarsi more or less infuscate; fore femur black on all but basal one fifth of its length and on extreme apex; fore tibia black on all but basal one fifth of its length; tergite 1+2 with a dark median vitta, which is connected to a broad transverse band occupying two thirds of the width of dorsum of tergite 2 and its apical half; tergite 3 with an equally broad trapezoid dark marking having rounded shoulders, which is wider at apex than at base and occupies the entire exposed length of the tergite (in some specimens this marking divided by a pair of longitudinal yellow vittae, but whether divided or not a pair of grey dusted vittae giving it the appearance of being so); tergite 4 with a little narrower but similar marking to that of tergite 3, but this always divided by yellow vittae into a dark median vitta bounded on either side by a triangular spot; tergite 5 with a dark median vitta on basal half and a pair of oblong dark spots level with its apex; tergite 8 (Fig. 1b).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Madagascar.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49403E51FE10FC105D55D14E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49473E56FDE4FEB65D95D4DE.text	03B387EF49473E56FDE4FEB65D95D4DE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona corrugata Deeming 1979	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) corrugata Deeming, 1979</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>NAMIBIA • 2 ♀♀; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=24.599445&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.833334" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 24.599445/lat -17.833334)">Katima Mulilo Distr.</a>, Salambala pan; 17°50ʹ00″ S, 24°35ʹ58″ E; 23–27 Dec. 2002; A.H. and M.K. Kirk-Spriggs leg.; Malaise trap; NMWN.</p> <p>NIGERIA • 1 ♀; Zaria, Samaru; 29 Jan. 1969; J.C. Deeming leg.; m. v. trap; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described from the male sex from Nigeria (Deeming 1979: 34).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Namibia, Nigeria.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49473E56FDE4FEB65D95D4DE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49463E57FDFBFEB65893D29E.text	03B387EF49463E57FDFBFEB65893D29E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona falcata (Thomson 1869)	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) falcata (Thomson, 1869)</p> <p>Coenosia falcata Thomson, 1869: 560. China (Hong Kong).</p> <p>Atherigona nudiseta Malloch, 1923: 186. India.</p> <p>Atherigona nudiseta ssp. megaloba Fan, 1965: 69. China.</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>ETHIOPIA • 2 ♂♂; Oromo Prov., Debre Zeit; 1800 m a.s.l.; 23 Feb. 2005; M.R. Wilson leg.; Malaise trap in Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.; NMWC.</p> <p>NAMIBIA • 1 ♂; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=23.348612&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.760279" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 23.348612/lat -17.760279)">West Caprivi Park</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=23.348612&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.760279" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 23.348612/lat -17.760279)">Kwando River Susuwe</a>; 17°45ʹ37″ S, 23°20ʹ55″ E; 28 Sep.–2 Oct. 1998; A.H. Kirk-Spriggs leg.; Malaise trap, dry woodland; NMNW • 4 ♂♂; Katima Mulilo Distr., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=24.599445&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.833334" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 24.599445/lat -17.833334)">Salambala pan</a>; 17°50ʹ00″ S, 24°35ʹ58″ E; 23–27 Dec. 2002; A.H. and M.K. Kirk-Spriggs leg.; Malaise trap; NMNW • 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=3.314722&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.846945" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 3.314722/lat -17.846945)">Caprivi Park</a>, Kwando Meander, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=3.314722&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.846945" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 3.314722/lat -17.846945)">Kwando River</a>; 17°50ʹ49″ S, 3°18ʹ53″ E; 5 Dec. 1999; D.J. Mann leg.; swept from floating vegetation, mainly grasses; OUMNH • 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described into the genus Coenosia Meigen, 1826 (Thomson 1869: 560), this species has a wide oriental and australasian distribution. A single male was recorded (Deeming 1975: 2) from Ongeama, Namibia. Pont &amp; Magpayo (1995: 43–44) list 22 known hostplants.</p> <p>The puparium is described by Skidmore (1985: 305, fig. 92g –i).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa and widespread Oriental and Australasian Regions.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49463E57FDFBFEB65893D29E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49463E57FDF5FB005F34D0C6.text	03B387EF49463E57FDF5FB005F34D0C6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona fililoba Deeming 1979	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) fililoba Deeming, 1979</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>BURKINA FASO • 2 ♂♂; Bobo Dioulasso, Farako Bâ; Jul.–Nov. 1989; J. Zongo leg.; fish meal bait in sorghum plot; NMWC.</p> <p>MALI • 1 ♂; Yanfolila; 19 Sep.–7 Oct. 1986; J. Durham leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>NIGERIA • 1 ♂; “M.W.” [Mid. West] State, Uhonmora; Nov. 1974; J.T. Medler leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described from Nigeria, Cameroun and Ivory Coast (Deeming 1979: 45).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49463E57FDF5FB005F34D0C6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49463E54FE18F9485E5DD0B3.text	03B387EF49463E54FE18F9485E5DD0B3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona humeralis (Wiedemann 1830)	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) humeralis (Wiedemann, 1830)</p> <p>Coenosia humeralis Wiedemann, 1830: 441.</p> <p>Atherigona ferruginea van Emden, 1940: 116. Sudan.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described (Wiedemann 1830: 441) from the Sudan as a species of Coenosia, much confusion has arisen in nomenclature between this and related species. The junior synonym Atherigona (s. str.) ferruginea was also described from the Sudan (van Emden 1940: 116).</p> <p>At present the synonymy of the two species that have appeared under this name is thus:</p> <p>1) humeralis (Wiedemann) (Pont 1986, 1997) (Skidmore 1985, non Hennig 1964, nec auctt.), syn. ferruginea van Emden (Pont 1986).</p> <p>2) bedfordi van Emden, syn. humeralis (Wiedemann) sensu Hennig 1964, et auctt., non Skidmore, 1985, nec Pont, 1986.</p> <p>Amongst the material discovered in the Smithsonian Institution is a specimen labelled as being the type of Coenosia humeralis. This specimen is an Atherigona and it is in quite good condition, but teneral, lacking both middle legs and having the one remaining hind leg heavily damaged. It is pinned onto a card mount on a ‘continental’ pin and bears the following labels:</p> <p>1) blue rectangular “ Tete Peters” in copperplate of an unknown hand.</p> <p>2) white rectangular “6618” [or possibly 8199] machine-printed.</p> <p>3) red rectangular “ Type ” machine-printed.</p> <p>4) blue rectangular “ humeralis Wied. Loew *” in copperplate as 1 above.</p> <p>5) grey rectangular “ Atherigona varia Meig. ♂ ” in Stein’s handwriting [this is a simple misidentification, fortunately not introduced into the literature].</p> <p>6) white rectangular “Mus. Berol.” [this refers to Museo Regio Berolinensi, the Royal Museum of Berlin, of which Museo academico Berolinensi and Royal Prussian Museum are alternative names for the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, formerly the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin].</p> <p>Wiedemann only described a single species of Muscidae under the specific name of humeralis, which is this species, and the types of it from Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt am Main) have been clearly identified by Pont (1997: 98). Pont (1995) further gives much information on the collectors with whom Wiedemann cooperated and the nature of the collections upon which he worked and was able to identify the type with certainty. Clearly, this specimen is falsely labelled as being the type. Upon dissection it was found on the structure, colouration and chaetotaxy of the trifoliate process to be undoubtedly A. hyalinipennis van Emden, 1959. A further label has been added to the specimen to that effect and the abdomen pinned beneath the specimen in a van Doesburg vial of glycerine.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>The species is further known from the Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Jordan, Libya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Oman, Rwanda, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Uganda and United Arab Emirates.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49463E54FE18F9485E5DD0B3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49453E5AFDF4F95F5E77D292.text	03B387EF49453E5AFDF4F95F5E77D292.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona laevigata (Loew 1852)	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) laevigata (Loew, 1852)</p> <p>Coenosia laevigata Loew, 1852: 660.</p> <p>Atherigona scutellaris Stein in Becker, 1903: 110. Egypt.</p> <p>Atherigona laeta – authors nec Wiedemann (misidentifications). Described as a species of Coenosia from Mozambique (Loew 1852: 660), this species ranges from Cape Province to Egypt and Yemen and from Nigeria to the Seychelles, Comoros and Madagascar. The holotype female is amongst the material recently discovered in the Smithsonian Institution. It is in poor condition, lacking both wings and having only one mid and one hind leg complete. Nevertheless, the frontal vitta can be seen to be yellow on anterior half, becoming abruptly black, and the palpus yellow. These characters, along with the tergal markings, leave one in no doubt that the concept of authors of this species is correct. The specimen is mounted on a ‘continental’ (39 mm long) pin and bears the following labels:</p> <p>1) blue long rectangular “Inhamb. Pet.” in a copperplate hand.</p> <p>2) red rectangular “ Type ” machine-printed.</p> <p>3) as (1) above “ laevigata Loew ”.</p> <p>4) grey rectangular “ Atherigona laevigata Lw. ” in Stein’s handwriting.</p> <p>This specimen is accompanied by a ♂ micropinned on pith on a black ‘continental’ pin and bearing the following labels, all of which are white rectangular:</p> <p>1) “Africa or., Katona 904” machine-printed.</p> <p>2) “Mto-ja-Kifaru” machine-printed.</p> <p>3) “ Atherigona laeta (Wied.) ♂ det. Stein” [a misidentification, laeta being an oriental species with a superficial resemblance to laevigata].</p> <p>4) “ Atherigona laevigata Lw. det. J.R. Malloch”.</p> <p>This specimen undoubtedly originates from the Hungarian National Museum, where the East African collection of K. Katona is deposited (Horn &amp; Kahle 1935: 131).</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>CYPRUS • 1 ♀; Kyrenia, SE of New Harbour; 550 m a.s.l.; 23 Oct. 1995; C.E. Dyte leg.; plants near stream; NMWC.</p> <p>ISRAEL • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Jordan Valley, N of Tiberias; 27 Apr. 1984; K.A. Spencer leg.; det. A.C. Pont; NMWC.</p> <p>KENYA • 2 ♂♂; Rift Valley, Ol Arabe Gorge; 18 Nov. 1988; R.K. Butlin leg.; NMWC • 5 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀; Kasarani; 10–11 Aug. 1989; J.W. Ismay leg.; swept, savannah; NMWC • 1 ♂; Limuru P.O.; 12 Apr. 1983; K.A. Spencer leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>MAURITIUS • 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀; 1–2 km S of Wolmar; 21 May 2000; coast roadside; J.W. Ismay leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>NAMIBIA • 2 ♂♂; Noachabeb, 27 miles NNE of Grunau; 10–12 Jan. 1972; BMSAE expedition; NHMUK • 1 ♀; Skeleton Coast, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=11.783334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.266666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 11.783334/lat -17.266666)">Kunene Mouth</a>; 17°16ʹ S, 11°47ʹ E; 20–22 Apr. 1994; E. Marais leg.; NMNW • 2 ♀♀; Rundu Distr., Rundu, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=19.759167&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.911943" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 19.759167/lat -17.911943)">Kavango Lodge</a>; 17°54ʹ43ʺ S, 19°45ʹ33ʺ E; 27–29 Mar. 2003; A.H. Kirk-Spriggs and W. Mey leg.; light trap; NMNW • 1 ♀; Opuwa Distr., Ekuju village, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=13.815556&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.325" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 13.815556/lat -17.325)">Kunene River</a>; 17°19ʹ30ʺ S, 13°48ʹ56ʺ E; 11–12 Oct. 1999; Kirk-Spriggs leg.; Malaise trap in riverine forest; NMNW.</p> <p>DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • 6 specs (with puparia unassociated with individual specimens); P.K. 45, “route du Nord, Ferme laitiere” [North road, dairy farm]; 28 Nov. 1985; A. Delobel leg.; reared from Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.; NMWC.</p> <p>UGANDA • 2 ♀♀; Kawanda; 30 Sep. 1962; J. Bowden leg.; NMWC. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES • 1 ♀; Al-Ajban; 26 Mar.–4 Apr. 2006; A. van Harten leg.; Malaise trap; NMWC.</p> <p>YEMEN • 1 ♂; Medina Al Shirq; 20 Feb. 1991; A. van Harten, H. Mahdi and M. Mahyoub leg.; NMWC • 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Ta’izz; 5 Jan.–2 Feb. 1998; A. van Harten and M. Mahyoub leg.; light trap; NMWC • 5 ♀♀; Ta’izz; Nov.–Dec. 1999; A. van Harten and A. Awad leg.; light trap; NMWC • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Sana’a; Jan. 1991; A. van Harten leg; NMWC • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding: Mar. 1991; NMWC • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; Mar. 1992; NMWC • 6 ♂♂, same collection data as for preceding; Apr. 1992; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Females of the Kasarani material show a tendency to large size, being 5–5.4 mm in length, as against 3 mm in males, have the scutum and tergites more extensively darkened and a more accentuated frontofacial angle, whereas the material from Yemen is diminutive, being hardly more than half the length of the largest Kasarani female, is extensively pale and has a frontofacial angle of little less than a right angle. The Kawanda females resemble those from Kasarani. It is apparent that large species of this genus tend towards a more acute frontofacial angle (see Skidmore’s 1985: 301, fig. 89g, figure of the head in profile of A. mitrata Séguy, 1955), and it would appear that large individuals of A. laevigata do the same. The darker colouration of the Kasarani material points to melanism associated with lower temperatures at high altitude. Extreme variation in colour pattern of Kenyan female material was figured (Clearwater 1981: 309, figs 9, 10a–d.)</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Angola, Comoros, Cyprus, D.R. Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, ‘Palestine’, Rwanda, Seychelles, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49453E5AFDF4F95F5E77D292	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF494B3E5AFDC0FB7C5CF8D16D.text	03B387EF494B3E5AFDC0FB7C5CF8D16D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona maliensis Dike 1989	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) maliensis Dike, 1989</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>MALI • 1 ♂; Mourdiah; 13–25 Aug. 1986; M. Matthews leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described from the male sex from Mali (Dike 1989b: 73). The holotype of this species was described, correctly, as having “Legs brownish black, but coxae, trochanters and knee of middle leg darkish yellow”. With its strap-like palpus and unique abdominal structure and colouration, no doubt exists as to the identity of this second specimen. However, its legs, unlike those of the holotype, are yellow with the fore leg brownish black on all but coxa, trochanter, basal one third of femur and narrowly on knee, and the mid and hind tarsi somewhat infuscate, less so on the apical two segments. I suspect that the type is discoloured. Much other material received from the same collection as the type has exhibited unnatural discolouration, sometimes even halteres appearing infuscate.</p> <p>These are the only two specimens so far known.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Mali.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF494B3E5AFDC0FB7C5CF8D16D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF494A3E5BFDF2FEB65ECAD535.text	03B387EF494A3E5BFDF2FEB65ECAD535.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona medleri Deeming 1979	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) medleri Deeming, 1979</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>BURKINA FASO • 1 ♂; Matourkou; Jul.–Aug. 1987; J. Zongo leg.; on sorghum shoot; NMWC.</p> <p>“R.P.” [Democratic Republic] CONGO • 1 ♂ (both fore legs missing); Matane, Boko, Songo; 19 May 1984; A. Delobel leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>UGANDA • 1 ♂; Serere; 24 Oct. 1972; J.L. Overman leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described only from the male sex from Nigeria (Deeming 1979: 50). The Congo male is unusual in having the median lobe of the trifoliate process shorter and tergite 7 immaculate.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Burkina Faso, D.R. Congo, Nigeria, Uganda.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF494A3E5BFDF2FEB65ECAD535	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF494A3E58FDF2FCDD5D05D574.text	03B387EF494A3E58FDF2FCDD5D05D574.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona nigrithorax Stein 1906	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) nigrithorax Stein, 1906</p> <p>Fig. 1c–d</p> <p>Described from a female from Togo (Stein 1906: 66) and not since reported. The holotype appears in the material discovered in the Smithsonian Institution and has been returned to MNB. The type is in good condition and mounted on a black steel pin with the following labels:</p> <p>1) rectangular grey label “ Togo, Bismarckburg, 17-23.XII.92, L. Conradt S.”</p> <p>2) rectangular red label “ Type ”.</p> <p>3) rectangular white label “Mus. Berol.”</p> <p>4) rectangular grey label “ Atherigona nigrithorax sp. n. Stein ♀ ”.</p> <p>The first three labels are machine-printed and the fourth is in the handwriting of Stein.</p> <p>Redescription</p> <p>MEASUREMENTS. Body length, female 4.0 mm; wing 3.0 mm.</p> <p>Female</p> <p>HEAD. Frontal vitta deep velvety black; frontal plate undusted from base of second inferior orbital seta to level of posterior ocellus; parafacialia, facialia and gena white dusted, this most strongly developed on frontofacial angle; occiput and ocellar prominence dark grey dusted, the postorbital strip paler grey; width of parafacialia at narrowest part equal to diameter of an ocellus; antenna black, somewhat brownish on extreme apex of pedicel and on arista; palpus black.</p> <p>THORAX. Scutum and scutellum black in ground colour and weakly grey dusted, the former without apparent darker dusted longitudinal vittae; postpronotal lobe infuscate dorsally; pleura ranging from yellow on propleuron to yellowish brown elsewhere, more heavily and yellowish dusted than scutum; propleuron with one long and one moderate and one fine seta; one moderate prostigmatical and a fine seta; lower katepisternal seta equidistant from the two upper setae (these lacking on both sides, but the scars of their attachment visible).</p> <p>WING. Hyaline with brown veins; anterior crossvein at 0.4 of length of discal cell. LEGS. All tarsi more or less infuscate; fore tibia black, but obscurely yellowish on basal one third of its length; fore femur somewhat infuscate on apical two fifths of its length and hind tibia somewhat infuscate on apical two thirds.</p> <p>ABDOMEN (Fig. 1d). Yellow with black markings and tergites very weakly yellowish dusted; 8 th tergite (Fig. 1c). The abdomen is contained in a van Doesburg vial of glycerine pinned under the specimen.</p> <p>Male</p> <p>Unknown.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>In the structure of the head and thorax this species is almost identical to A. bimaculata Stein, 1910 but the area of infuscation of the fore femur is much more restricted than in that species, the abdominal pattern is quite different and the eighth tergite has more heavily sclerotised basal lobes and their pair of separated sclerites triangular, rather than slug-shaped.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Togo.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF494A3E58FDF2FCDD5D05D574	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49493E59FDF0FC1D5DD8D40E.text	03B387EF49493E59FDF0FC1D5DD8D40E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona parviclivis Muller 2015	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) parviclivis Muller, 2015</p> <p>Fig. 2</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>BOTSWANA • 5 ♂♂; Goodhope; 28 Feb. 1990; J.M. Mashonja leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described (Muller 2015: 891) from males from South Africa with illustrations of the hypopygial prominence and trifoliate process of the holotype (Muller 2015: 910, fig. 3a–d). In the Botswanan material listed here, the hypopygial prominence in dorsal view is much more weakly developed.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Botswana, South Africa.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49493E59FDF0FC1D5DD8D40E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49483E5EFDECFD905D2AD465.text	03B387EF49483E5EFDECFD905D2AD465.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona subnigripes (Karsch 1888)	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) subnigripes (Karsch, 1888)</p> <p>Fig. 3a</p> <p>Described into the genus Cleigastra Macquart, 1835 and from Bondei in what is now Tanzania, this species is only known from the female holotype (Karsch 1888: 380). This type, previously recorded by me (Deeming 1971: 183) as being lost, appears in the material discovered in the Smithsonian Institution and has been returned to MNB. The specimen is mounted on a white steel 39 mm long ‘continental’ pin and is in good condition. It bears the following labels:</p> <p>1) blue rectangular “Bondei, C.W. Schmidt, Jan. 86” machine-printed.</p> <p>2) white rectangular “13848” machine-printed.</p> <p>3) red rectangular “ Type ” machine-printed.</p> <p>4) white rectangular “ Cleigastra subnigripes Karsch ” handwritten in an unknown hand.</p> <p>5) grey rectangular “ Atherigona [illegible short word]” in Stein’s hand.</p> <p>Redescription</p> <p>MEASUREMENTS: Body length female 4.5 mm; wing 3.5 mm.</p> <p>Female</p> <p>HEAD. Black dorsally and on upper four fifths of occiput; yellow elsewhere, yellow parts whitish to yellow dusted, postorbital stripe pale grey dusted, occiput darker dusted, especially medially, where it is as dark as ocellar prominence; frontal plate undusted from level of posterior ocellus to base of the posterior of the two inferior orbital setae; frontal vitta black throughout; parafacialia at narrowest part as wide as two thirds of width of anterior ocellus; antenna dark brown, ferruginous on the basoventral angle of postpedicel; palpus yellow, slightly infuscate on basal one third of its length.</p> <p>THORAX. Scutum and scutellum black and very lightly yellowish dusted, the former with indications of three darker longitudinal vittae and becoming yellowish in ground colour on lateral declivities; pleura yellow in ground colour and heavily golden yellow dusted; one long and one moderate propleural seta and a fine setula; one moderate prostigmatical and a fine setula; lower katepisternal seta situated closer to the more posterior of the two upper setae.</p> <p>WING. Hyaline with yellowish veins; anterior crossvein situated at 0.38 of length of discal cell.</p> <p>LEGS. Yellow with tarsi more or less infuscate, fore femur black on apical two fifths, fore tibia black but obscurely yellowish at extreme base and hind tibia brown.</p> <p>ABDOMEN. Yellow, shining through weak yellowish dust; tergite 4 with a pair of round dark spots which are one quarter of the exposed length of the tergite and are separated from its apex by their own diameter; tergite 5 with a pair of long oval black spots occupying the apical half of its exposed length; tergite 8 (Fig. 7). The abdomen is contained in a van Doesburg vial of glycerine pinned under the specimen.</p> <p>Male</p> <p>Unknown.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>This species may well be conspecific with one known only from males. There are several African species whose females bear a superficial resemblance to this one, but none of those that I have been able to inspect has a similar structure to the eighth tergite.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Tanzania.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49483E5EFDECFD905D2AD465	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF494E3E5FFDEFFEB65F3FD4F2.text	03B387EF494E3E5FFDEFFEB65F3FD4F2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona tetrastigma Paterson 1956	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) tetrastigma Paterson, 1956</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>ETHIOPIA • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Alemaya; 29 Jul. 1993; S. Gudeta leg.; NMWC • 1 ♂; Debre Zeit; 28–30 Sep. 2005; M.R. Wilson leg.; Malaise trap; NMWC.</p> <p>KENYA • 1 ♂ (very teneral, with incomplete puparium); Nairobi; emerged 14 Dec. 1981; A. Delobel leg.; from shoot of Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst; NMWC.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>Described from both sexes from Tanzania (Paterson 1956: 169).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>D.R. Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF494E3E5FFDEFFEB65F3FD4F2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF494E3E5FFDC0FC9C5F57D04C.text	03B387EF494E3E5FFDC0FC9C5F57D04C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona varia (Meigen 1826)	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) varia (Meigen, 1826)</p> <p>Fig. 3b–c</p> <p>Described into the genus Anthomyia Meigen, 1803 (Meigen 1826: 187), this species is found around the Mediterranean and in Europe north to southern England, France and Hungary. It is further recorded from U.A.E., Oman and China and is the type species of Atherigona. On 28 Aug.1996, I found an isolated deadheart shoot of an unidentified grass in mixed forest at Vallombrosa in the mountains of eastern Tuscany. From this a female Atherigona emerged in the laboratory, which on structure generally and especially that of the eighth tergite agrees with A. varia. The grass shoot was distinctive in having the ligule bearing long hairs and was kindly examined by Dr G. Hutchinson, NMWC, who believed it might be Danthonia decumbens (L.). To the best of my knowledge this species has never been reared, so a brief description of the puparium is given and the larval mandibular sclerite figured.</p> <p>Description</p> <p>MEASUREMENTS. Length 3.5 mm and 1.1 mm in greatest width.</p> <p>PUPARIUM. Yellowish brown, subshiny, with cephaloskeleton and posterior spiracles black, which latter are projecting to a distance equal to one half of their individual width and with their apical surfaces separated from one another by their individual width. Mandibular sclerite (Fig. 3b) robust, black, with no indication of a separate dorsal tooth-like projection. Anterior spiracle (Fig. 3c) a rosette of 7 digitations.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Widespread in southern Europe, Middle East and China.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF494E3E5FFDC0FC9C5F57D04C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF494E3E41FDA5F9D25DC1D7BF.text	03B387EF494E3E41FDA5F9D25DC1D7BF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona zongoi Deeming 2022	<div><p>Atherigona (s. str.) zongoi sp. nov.</p> <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F164A4E6-522D-4F57-9DA0-A06153A6AB78</p> <p>Figs 4–7</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>This species is very similar to A. kenierobaensis Muller &amp; Mostovski, 2018 from Mali, differing from it in having the occiput grey dusted throughout, the frontal plate with only a slight indication of shine between the upper three orbital setae, the fore leg yellow throughout, the fore tarsus with specialised chaetotaxy on anterior surface. The hypopygial prominence and trifoliate process of the two species show strong similarities to one another, but in A. zongoi sp. nov. the hypopygial prominence is deeper than wide, rather than wider than deep, the trifoliate process has only traces of infuscation and its median lobe, though bearing a very similar chaetotaxy, very strongly bent when viewed in profile rather than almost straight (Fig. 4b). In the most recent key to Nigerian Atherigona (Dike 1990) it would trace to A. africana Deeming, 1971 but that species has an entirely black trifoliate process, the median lobe of which bears only minute apical setae. The new species is also very similar to A. piscatoris Muller, 2015 in the shape of the hypopygial prominence, as well as in the shape of the median lobe when viewed laterally, but looks quite different when viewed ventrally, although the dark colour in Fig. 7a is an optical artefact.</p> <p>Etymology</p> <p>The species epithet refers to the collector’s name (J.O. Zongo) in whose honour the species is named.</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>Holotype BURKINA FASO • ♂; Bobo Dioulasso, Farako Bâ; Aug. 1988; J.O. Zongo leg.; on fishmeal bait in sorghum field; NMWC.</p> <p>Paratypes BURKINA FASO • 8 ♂♂; same collection data as for holotype; NMWC • 3 ♂♂ (on same mount, 1 fragmented); same collection data as for holotype; Aug.–Oct. 1978; R.T. Gahuhar leg.; NMWC.</p> <p>GUINÉE [GUINEA] • 1 ♂; Nimba; Jul.–Dec. 51 [1951]; Lamotte and Roy leg.; MNHN.</p> <p>Description</p> <p>MEASUREMENTS. Body length, male 3.7 mm; wing, 2.3 mm.</p> <p>Male</p> <p>HEAD (Fig. 6a). Black, with black setae; frontal vitta black and with heavy grey dusting, which is less dense on superior orbits and becomes brownish on occiput; 2 long and 1 short inferior orbital seta; frontofacial angle 93°, parafacialia at this point broad and prominent, becoming as broad as base of arista at narrowest part, just above base of vibrissa; genal setae weak and short; antenna and palpus black, but basal half of arista brownish; setae on truncate apex of male palpus pale.</p> <p>THORAX (Fig. 5a–b). Scutum and scutellum dark in ground colour, grey dusted, former with an indication of a darker median vitta presuturally; postpronotal lobe yellow and pleura dirty yellow, but somewhat infuscate on parts of anepisternum, anepimeron and katepisternum, pleural dusting more yellow; anepisternum with a strong seta at the lower posterior corner and 2 shorter setae above it; katepisternum with 3 setae in an isosceles triangle; all setae and setulae black.</p> <p>WING. Hyaline with yellowish brown veins and anterior crossvein situated at 0.4 of length of discal cell; haltere creamy white.</p> <p>LEGS. Yellow, apical 3 segments of fore tarsus (Figs 4e, 6b) with a comb of curved setae anteriorly, longest seta over twice as long as tarsus is wide.</p> <p>ABDOMEN. Yellow and yellowish grey dusted; tergite 3 with a pair of long oval black spots occupying quite two thirds of its length; tergite 4 with a pair of short oval black spots on apical half; remaining tergites immaculate.</p> <p>POSTABDOMEN. Trifoliate process (Figs 4a–b, 7a–b) yellow, with apices of lobes becoming white, stem somewhat infuscate, as also is a line extending to the shoulders of the lateral lobes; the pair of long setae on apex of median lobe of trifoliate process pale.</p> <p>HYPOPYGIAL PROMINENCE (Fig. 4c–d).</p> <p>Female</p> <p>Unknown.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Burkina Faso, Guinea.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF494E3E41FDA5F9D25DC1D7BF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49503E41FE37FE635D46D259.text	03B387EF49503E41FE37FE635D46D259.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona (Acritochaeta) maculipennis Stein 1910	<div><p>Atherigona (Acritochaeta) maculipennis Stein, 1910</p> <p>Described from both sexes from the Seychelles (Stein 1910: 158), the types appear in the material discovered in the Smithsonian Institution. These, a male and female, are in excellent condition, are micropinned onto pith mounts on ‘continental’ pins and are identically labelled, thus:</p> <p>1) white rectangular “ Seychelles [short illegible word]” handwritten.</p> <p>2) red rectangular “ Type ” machine-printed.</p> <p>3) white rectangular “ Atherigona maculipennis Type (Stein) det. Stein”, and with respective sex symbol.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>The diagnosis of this species as given by van Emden (1940: 105), correct in every other detail, cites the frontal vitta as being orange-red. This is certainly true of the female, but in the male it is much darker, being black and only slightly paler anteriorly. The palpus of the male, on its apical one third, bears an area of erect wavy fine pale hairs on its ventral surface.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Seychelles.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49503E41FE37FE635D46D259	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
03B387EF49503E46FE01FBC95E90D7F5.text	03B387EF49503E46FE01FBC95E90D7F5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atherigona (Acritochaeta) orientalis Schiner 1868	<div><p>Atherigona (Acritochaeta) orientalis Schiner, 1868</p> <p>Atherigona orientalis Schiner, 1868: 295.</p> <p>Coenosia excisa Thomson, 1869: 560. Ross Island.</p> <p>Atherigona trilineata Stein, 1900: 157. New Guinea.</p> <p>Acritochaeta pulvinata Grimshaw, 1901: 42. Hawaii.</p> <p>Atherigona magnipalpis Stein, 1906: 66. Cameroon.</p> <p>Described from the Nicobar Islands (Schiner 1868: 295) and widespread throughout the tropics of the World, this is the only species of its subgenus to have become established in the Americas. This species has a very varied larval biology, the larvae being predaceous but also probably ingesting the decaying organic matter in which they develop. In the case of the recent record of this species being reared from turtle eggs in Cyprus (McGowan et al. 2001) the larvae of other Diptera present might be the primary source of nutrition.</p> <p>The mislaid types of Atherigona magnipalpis Stein, 1906: 66, which is listed as a junior synonym of orientalis, are in the box of material discovered in the Smithsonian Institution and have been returned to MNB. These, a male and a female, are in very good condition, micropinned on card mounts on ‘continental’ pins and bear the following labels:</p> <p>Male</p> <p>1) grey rectangular “N. Kamerun, Johann-Alberechtshöhe, L. Conradt S6, 17.6.96” machine-printed with date added.</p> <p>2) red rectangular “ Type ” machine-printed.</p> <p>3) grey rectangular “ Atherigona magnipalpis sp. n. ♂ ♀ Stein” in Stein’s handwriting.</p> <p>4) white rectangular “ Atherigona excisa Thom. Det. J.R. Malloch ” in Malloch’s hand.</p> <p>Female</p> <p>1) white rectangular “17/6.96” in red ink.</p> <p>2) as 1 above for male, but without date.</p> <p>3) as 2 above for male.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Cyprus, pan-tropical, southern Nearctic.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EF49503E46FE01FBC95E90D7F5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Deeming, John C.	Deeming, John C. (2022): Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described. European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1): 121-144, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987
