Hemigymnochaeta Corti 1895
Creators: name: Kurahashi, Hiromu
name: Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Calliphoridae
Hemigymnochaeta

description: Key to species of Hemigymnochaeta Corti   
1. Lower calypter yellowish brown, posterior margin concolorous.................................. 2  
­ Lower calypter dark yellowish brown, with fuscous margin posteriorly...................... 6  
2. Scutum with more or less pronounced dark pattern...................................................... 3  
­ Scutum entirely orange or yellowish brown, without dark pattern............................... 4  
 3. Scutum with pair of widely separated, usually distinct, black longitudinal stripes........ .................................................................................................. H. varia (Hough) (p. 69)   
 ­ Scutum with dark, more or less extended, single discal spot, at most a little indistinctly lightened in median area ..................................................... H. bequaerti Curran (p. 67)   
 4. Tergites 3–4 with distinct marginal band, often broader than width of 1 st flagellomere. ............................................................................................. H. bequaerti Curran (p. 67)   
­ Tergites 3–4 without marginal band, but very rarely with trace of narrow marginal band............................................................................................................................... 5  
 5. Postsutural dc 3; 4 th tergite with one strong lateral discal; 5 th tergite with complete row of 8–10 discals (Fig. 7); smaller species, 6.0–7.0 mm in body length............................ ............................................................................................ H. trichaeta sp. nov. (p. 68)   
 ­ Postsutural dc 4; 4 th tergite without strong lateral discals; 5 th tergite with only a few lateral bristles (Fig. 8); medium­sized species, 7.0–8.5 mm in body length....................... .............................................................................................. H. unicolor (Bigot) (p. 68)   
 6. Scutum with pronounced dark pattern; 3 rd tergite with broad marginal band; tergites 4–5 largely or entirely blackish; genal dilation entirely clothed in black hairs............ 7   
 ­ Scutum usually without distinct dark pattern, rarely with more or less extended single discal spot; tergites 3–4 with rather broad marginal band; 5 th tergite entirely yellowish brown; genal dilation with patch of yellow hairs among black ones posteriorly............ ............................................................................................... H. maraisi sp. nov. (p. 67)   
 7. Scutellum with pronounced dark pattern ............................... H. laticeps Zumpt (p. 67)   
 ­ Scutellum without pronounced dark pattern (not recorded from Namibia).................... ............................................................................................................. H. liberia Curran
description: Published as part of Kurahashi, Hiromu & Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H., 2006, The Calliphoridae of Namibia (Diptera: Oestroidea), pp. 1-131 in Zootaxa 1322 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5071123