Pseudophysocephala vitripennis, Curran, 1928
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https://doi.org/10.20363/BZB-2019.68.2.209 |
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P. vitripennis Curran, 1928 View in CoL
( Figs 122–125 View Figs 122–125 )
Physocephala vitripennis Curran 1928
= Physocephala intermedia Kröber 1936 (syn. nov.)
= Conops bouvieri Séguy 1936 (syn. nov.)
= Pseudophysocephala meii Camras 2001 View in CoL (syn. nov.)
= Pseudophysocephala acroschista sensu Camras (2001) , nec Speiser, 1911
Primary type material examined. ♂ holotype of Physocephala intermedia Kröber, 1936 : (1) “ Ph. Type ♂ / intermedia ”; (2) “ Musée du Congo / Ubangi: Nzali / 3/ 4-II-1932 / H. J. Brédo ”; (3) “R. DÉT / Z / 2992”; (4) “ Physocephala ♂ / intermedia Krb. / det. Kröber 1935”; (5) “Type”; (6) “RMCA ENT / 000012179”; coll. MRAC .
♀ holotype, ♂ paratype (pinned on one needle) of Pseudophysocephala meii Camras 2001 : (1) “Repub- lique de Guinea PNHN5 / 10°16’43’’N 10°26’02’’W / Faranen, Sidakoro, mangor, / 29.XII.1995, leg. M. Mei ”; (2) “ Holotype ♀ and ♂ / Pseudophysocephala / meii / Camras”; (3) [glued male abdomen]; (4) “ Pseudophysocephala / cf vitripennis Curran / M. Mei det. 1997”; (5) “ Pseudophysoc / meii ”; coll. FMNH GoogleMaps .
Additional material. BENIN: 1♂, 20.iii.2011, Niaou- li, forest area [06°44’3.08″N 02°8’2.59″E], leg. G. Go- ergen, coll. IITA GoogleMaps ; 1♂, 2.ii.2014, Niaouli , forest area [06°44’3.08″N 02°8’2.59″E], sweepnetting, leg. G. Goergen, coll. IITA GoogleMaps ; 2♂♂, xi.2016, Sérou , forest area [09°40’03.00″N 01°41’50.00″E], leg. G. Goergen, coll. IITA GoogleMaps ; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 1 spec- imen, 18.x.1945, Tshuapa , Flandria, det. as P. intermedia
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by Camras 1962, leg. P. Hulstaert, coll. MRAC; 2♂♂, no date, Ville Malela, Chief Casende [5,40S 23,45E], det. as P. acroschista by Camras 2000, det. as P. intermedia by Camras 1962, leg. J. Bequaert, coll. FMNH; GHA- NA: 1♂, 9.ix.1947, Kumasi, paratype of P. meii , leg. J. Bowden, coll. NHML [NHMUK010922153]; NIGE- RIA: 2♂♂, xii.1998, Ibadan, IITA, sweeping net in for- est, leg. G. Goergen, coll. IITA; 1♀, 30.i.1988, Ibadan, IITA, leg. G. G. M. Schulten, coll. RMNH; 1♀, 3.ii.2000, Ibadan, IITA, on mud at forest margin, leg. G. Goergen, coll. IITA; SIERRA LEONE: 1♂ 1♀, 28.xi.1993, 5 km w Kabala, swept along road [09°35′N 11°35′W], leg. L. Cederholm, R. Danielsson & R. Hall, coll. MZLU; UGANDA: 1♀, 16.i.1966, nr. Entebbe, paratype of P. meii , attacking Apis , leg. D. J. Greathead, coll. NHML [NHMUK010922152].
Camras (1962b, 2001) was the only author to distinguish four very similar species of the pilitarsis group: P. vitripennis (Curran, 1928) , P. intermedia (Kröber, 1936) (as P. acroschista sensu Camras (2001) nec Speiser, 1911), P. bouvieri (Séguy, 1936) and P. meii Camras, 2001 . He used characters of wing colouration, relative length of tarsomeres and extent of dusting on the postpronotum to segregate these, but all of these characters are variable and the four taxa intergrade. There is little consistent dif- ference in the female theca or tarsi between these taxa. The holotypes of P. intermedia and P. meii were avail-
New conopid records from the Afrotropical Region ( Diptera ) – Part 3: Physocephalini 263 able to us but the holotype of P. bouvieri , which should be in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, but which was not included in the list of material available there ( GBIF 2019), could not be investigated. These four species are herewith treated as synonyms: Physocephala vitripennis Curran, 1928 = Physocephala intermedia Kröber, 1936 (syn. nov.) = Physocephala [ Conops ] bouvieri Séguy, 1936 (syn. nov.) = Physocephala [ Pseudophysocephala ] meii Camras, 2001 (syn. nov.).
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Pseudophysocephala vitripennis
Stuke, Jens-Hermann & Clements, David K. 2019 |
Pseudophysocephala meii
Camras 2001 |
Pseudophysocephala acroschista
sensu Camras 2001 |