Afrohercostomus

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

Afrohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. 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.

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) – Kenya
Afrohercostomus caprivi (Grichanov, 2004) – 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) – 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

References

1 2 3 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
1 2 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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[Grichanov2010-1] 1 2 3 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.

[Grichanov2011-3] 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.

[Grichanov1999-4] 1 2 Grichanov, Igor Ya. (1999). "Afrotropical species of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 10 (1): 7–44.

[Grichanov2004-5] 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.