Pleurocerinella kirkspriggsi, Stuke, 2019

Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2019, New conopid records from the Afrotropical Region (Diptera: Conopidae). Part 2: Conopinae excluding Physocephalini, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 49 (2), pp. 277-349 : 341-342

Key 10: Afrotropical Pleurocerinella species with a medially shining scutum, legs at least partly darkened and bare basal medial cell bm.

1 Basal radial cell br almost completely without microtrichia, at most some microtrichia along M and R 4+5 and in apicalmost part of the tip; fore and middle legs uniformly light brown to orange; frons broadly dusted laterally, this dusting connected with dusting on face; hind femur apically with black ventral spines; ♂: epandrium margins indistinctly fused distal to cerci (Stuke 2009: 228, fig. 33); ♂: distiphallus with short black spine which has no broadened base (Stuke 2009: 228, fig. 29) .......................................................... P. bartaki Stuke, 2009

– Basal radial cell br at most with only basal half lacking microtrichia; fore and middle legs may be black basally; no broad lateral dusting on frons connecting with dusting of face; hind femur apically may have no black ventral spines; ♂: epandrium may be distinctly separated or broadly fused distal to cerci (Stuke 2009: 228, fig. 32); ♂: shape of distiphallus different (Stuke 2009: 228, fig. 29)..................................................................................................................... 2

2 Hind femur apically with black ventral spines; ♂: epandrium distinctly separated distal to cerci (Stuke 2009: 228, fig. 32); ♂: distiphallus with less elongated mainly black spine (Stuke 2009: 227, fig. 27) ............... P. haladai Stuke, 2009

– Hind femur apically without black ventral spines ( Fig. 118); ♂: epandrium broadly fused distal to cerci ( Fig. 120); ♂: distiphallus basally with elongated spine, hardly sclerotized basally and with blackish tip ( Fig. 121) ..................... ........................................................................................... P. kirkspriggsi n. sp.