Afrohercostomus

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.[2]

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

Species
  • Afrohercostomus afer (Rondani, 1873)
  • Afrohercostomus argyropus (Loew, 1858)
    • Afrohercostomus argyropus argyropus (Loew, 1858)
    • Afrohercostomus argyropus par (Parent, 1934)
  • Afrohercostomus blagoderovi (Grichanov, 1999)[3]
  • Afrohercostomus caprivi (Grichanov, 2004)[4]
  • Afrohercostomus congoensis (Curran, 1925)
  • Afrohercostomus dimidiatus (Curran, 1939)
  • Afrohercostomus eronis (Curran, 1926)
  • Afrohercostomus golubtsovi (Grichanov, 1999)[3]
  • Afrohercostomus jani (Dyte, 1957)
  • Afrohercostomus natalensis Grichanov, 2010[1]
  • Afrohercostomus rhodesiensis (Parent, 1939)
  • Afrohercostomus straeleni (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951)
  • Afrohercostomus stuckenbergi Grichanov, 2010[1]
  • Afrohercostomus ultimus (Parent, 1935)

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