Afrohercostomus

Afrohercostomus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Dolichopodinae
Tribe: Dolichopodini
Genus:
Grichanov, 2010[1]
Type species
Hercostomus straeleni
Vanschuytbroeck, 1951

Afrohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] Many of the species were formerly from "Hercostomus Group I" (or the "Hercostomus" straeleni group), one of three groups of Afrotropical Hercostomus species created by Igor Grichanov in 1999.[3]

Species

  • Afrohercostomus afer (Rondani, 1873) – Ethiopia
  • Afrohercostomus argyropus (Loew, 1858)
    • Afrohercostomus argyropus argyropus (Loew, 1858) – Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
    • Afrohercostomus argyropus par (Parent, 1934) – Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  • Afrohercostomus blagoderovi (Grichanov, 1999)[4] – Kenya
  • Afrohercostomus caprivi (Grichanov, 2004)[5] – Namibia
  • Afrohercostomus congoensis (Curran, 1925) – Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Uganda
  • Afrohercostomus dimidiatus (Curran, 1939) – Zimbabwe
  • Afrohercostomus eronis (Curran, 1926) – Burundi, ?Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania
  • Afrohercostomus golubtsovi (Grichanov, 1999)[4] – Uganda
  • Afrohercostomus jani (Dyte, 1957) – Cameroon, DR Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
  • Afrohercostomus natalensis Grichanov, 2010[1] – South Africa
  • Afrohercostomus rhodesiensis (Parent, 1939) – Zimbabwe
  • Afrohercostomus straeleni (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951) – DR Congo, Uganda
  • Afrohercostomus stuckenbergi Grichanov, 2010[1] – Lesotho, South Africa
  • Afrohercostomus ultimus (Parent, 1935) – DR Congo, Kenya

References

  1. ^ a b c Grichanov, I. Ya. (2010). "A new genus of Dolichopodini from Tropical Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 21 (3): 183–194.
  2. ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2018). "An annotated catalogue of afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera)". Plant Protection News, Supplements (25). St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR). doi:10.5281/zenodo.1187006.
  3. ^ Grichanov, I. Ya. (2011). "A key to the Afrotropical genera of the subfamily Dolichopodinae with descriptions of new taxa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (234): 1–33. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b Grichanov, Igor Ya. (1999). "Afrotropical species of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 10 (1): 7–44.
  5. ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2004). "Review of Afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Plant Protection News, Supplements. St.Petersburg: All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection RAAS: 1–244. ISSN 1815-3682.