On Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae) with the revision of the type specimens deposited in the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin (Germany) with a key to species.

ABSTRACT: Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae) is a small genus with occurrence restricted to the Afrotropical region. Only five species are currently known in this genus: A. patersoni Zumpt, 1969, A. williamsi Snyder, 1951, A. arguta (Karsch, 1879), A. steini Curran, 1935, and A. gigas (Stein, 1906). All Aethiopomyia species are large, reaching up to 15 mm, as in A. patersoni and the most visible differences among them are based in the color pattern of the body. The species are mostly yellow, with a broad scutum and abdomen, males and females are dichoptic, the anepimeron is haired and they have stubby spines on the upper side of the palpi. Phylogenetically, Aethiopomyia, together with two other genera restricted to the Afrotropical

SUBMITTER: de Sousa VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7170978 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature