Afrohercostomus

Afrohercostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Dolichopodinae
Tribe:	Dolichopodini
Genus:	Afrohercostomus Grichanov, 2010 [1]
Type species
Hercostomus straeleni Vanschuytbroeck, 1951

Afrohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. ^[2] 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. ^[3]

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) ^[4] – Kenya
• Afrohercostomus caprivi (Grichanov, 2004) ^[5] – 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) ^[4] – Uganda
• Afrohercostomus jani (Dyte, 1957) – Cameroon, DR Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
• Afrohercostomus natalensis Grichanov, 2010 ^[1] – South Africa
• Afrohercostomus rhodesiensis (Parent, 1939) – Zimbabwe
• Afrohercostomus straeleni (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951) – DR Congo, Uganda
• Afrohercostomus stuckenbergi Grichanov, 2010 ^[1] – Lesotho, South Africa
• Afrohercostomus ultimus (Parent, 1935) – DR Congo, Kenya

References

1. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2010). "A new genus of Dolichopodini from Tropical Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 21 (3): 183–194.
2. Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2018). "An annotated catalogue of afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera)". Plant Protection News, Supplements (25). St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR). doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1187006 .
3. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2011). "A key to the Afrotropical genera of the subfamily Dolichopodinae with descriptions of new taxa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (234): 1–33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
4. Grichanov, Igor Ya. (1999). "Afrotropical species of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 10 (1): 7–44.
5. Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2004). "Review of Afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Plant Protection News, Supplements. St.Petersburg: All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection RAAS: 1–244. ISSN   1815-3682.