Twenty new species of fifteen genera of the Afrotropical Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)
Abstract
Twenty new species of fifteen genera of the Afrotropical Sphaeroceridae are described and illustrated in two subfamilies Achaetothorax mahunkaorum sp. n. (Kenya) and Norrbomia paragravis sp. n. (R.S.A.) in Copromyzinae and Ceropterella mirifica sp. n. (Namibia), Elachisoma simillimum sp. n. (R.S.A.), Gonitella inornata sp. n. (R.S.A.), Gonitella structuralis sp. n. (D.R. Congo), Minilimosina (M.) selecta sp. n. (R.S.A.), Minilimosina (Svarciella) rohaceki sp. n. (R.S.A.), Nudopella erratica sp. n. (R.S.A.), Nudopella marshalli sp. n. (R.S.A.), Nudopella pseudoperta sp. n., (R.S.A.), Paraminilimosina similis sp. n. (Tanzania, Nigeria), Parapoecilosomella formosa sp. n. (D.R. Congo), Philocoprella africana sp. n. (R.S.A.), Phthitia incognata sp. n. (R.S.A.), Phthitia (Kimosina) vulgaris sp. n. (R.S.A), Piliterga africana sp. n. (Nigeria, Tanzania), Setositibiella secunda sp. n. (Burundi), Spelobia foldvarii sp. n. (Tanzania), Terrilimosina improvisa sp. n. (Congo) in Limosininae. New records are provided for some other species. With 173 original figures.
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