New records of Afrohercostomus Grichanov (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from Tropical Africa

A new material for the genus Afrohercostomus Grichanov, 2010 was recently collected and/or identified. The present research gives new records, including A. eronis (Curran, 1926) found for the first time in Cameroon and Ethiopia, A. golubtsovi (Grichanov, 1999) in Burundi, A. ultimus (Parent, 1935) i...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Acta Biologica Sibirica
Main Author: I. Ya. Grichanov
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Altai State University 2018
Subjects:
Afrotropical
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Dolichopodinae
Dolichopodini
new records
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Sibirica
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.14258/abs.v4i3.4367
https://doaj.org/article/c051290e1e464374a8cb010b4afddd8e
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Summary:A new material for the genus Afrohercostomus Grichanov, 2010 was recently collected and/or identified. The present research gives new records, including A. eronis (Curran, 1926) found for the first time in Cameroon and Ethiopia, A. golubtsovi (Grichanov, 1999) in Burundi, A. ultimus (Parent, 1935) in Uganda, and A. jani (Dyte, 1957) in Kenya. First colour photographs are provided for A. eronis and A. jani.

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