Afrohercostomus Explained

Afrohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.^[1] 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.^[2]

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)^[3] – Kenya
• Afrohercostomus caprivi (Grichanov, 2004)^[4] – 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)^[3] – Uganda
• Afrohercostomus jani (Dyte, 1957) – Cameroon, DR Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
• Afrohercostomus natalensis Grichanov, 2010 – South Africa
• Afrohercostomus rhodesiensis (Parent, 1939) – Zimbabwe
• Afrohercostomus straeleni (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951) – DR Congo, Uganda
• Afrohercostomus stuckenbergi Grichanov, 2010 – Lesotho, South Africa
• Afrohercostomus ultimus (Parent, 1935) – DR Congo, Kenya

Notes and References

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