Afrohercostomus
| Afrohercostomus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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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[edit]
- Afrohercostomus afer (Rondani, 1873) – Ethiopia
- Afrohercostomus argyropus (Loew, 1858)
- 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[edit]
- ^ a b c Grichanov, I. Ya. (2010). "A new genus of Dolichopodini from Tropical Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 21 (3): 183–194.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ a b Grichanov, Igor Ya. (1999). "Afrotropical species of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 10 (1): 7–44.
- ^ 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.
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