Helina mollis (Stein, 1906)

(Figs 28–31)

Examined type material: Holotype not seen. A long series of males and females in the BMNH. One male from Kenya (Mt. Elgon, Forest Zone) dissected.

Diagnosis. Scutum dark brown-grey pollinose; postpedicel not more than 2.5 times as long as pedicel; palpus black; dorsocentrals 1+3; crossvein dm–cu not sigmoid; male terminalia small and not projecting.

Male terminalia. Sternite 5 longer than wide, with short setae on disc and two long preapical setae on each side (Fig. 28); cercal plate and surstylus short (Fig. 29); surstylus shorter than cercal plate in lateral view (Fig. 30); phallapodeme short, epiphallus long and curved (Fig. 31).

Notes. The species was originally described from South Africa in the genus Spilogaster Macquart, 1835 and was placed in Helina, subgenus Euspilaria Malloch, 1921, by Emden (1951).