Clinopogon Bezzi 1910
Creators: name: J. G. H. Londt
name: R. S. Copeland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Clinopogon

description: <b>A note on the distribution of Clinopogon</b> During the course of this study a number of new, unpublished, records for <i>Clinopogon</i> were encountered. Only two species are known from the region – <i>C. nicobarensis</i> (Schiner, 1868) and <i>C. reginaldi</i> (Séguy, 1955). While we have not seen representatives of <i>C. reginaldi</i>, known only from Tromelin Island [15°53’14”S 54°31’15”E, 1 m], we suspect that a re-evaluation of the material may well show it to be a synonym of <i>C</i>. <i>nicobarensis</i>. It is now possible to generate a reasonable map of distribution for the genus in the Afrotropics (Fig. 12). It is a widely distributed beach-inhabiting species that almost certainly has been distributed by oceanic currents carrying floating debris in much the same way as suggested for <i>Notiolaphria coerulescens</i> (Macquart, 1834) (Londt 2015). <i>Material examined</i> (Londt 1979 records*). MADAGASCAR: 1&amp;female; ‘Madagascar N / Ramena [12°14’57”S 49°20’30”E, 0 m] / 19.iv.1991 / A Freidberg / &amp; Fini Kaplan’ (NMSA); 5&amp;male; 3&amp;female; ‘Madagascar NW / Nosy Be, Beach / Ambatoloaka [13°23’39”S 48°12’19”E, 0 m], / 4.7. iv.1991 / A Freidberg / &amp; Fini Kaplan’ (NMSA); 2&amp;male; 2&amp;female; ‘Madagascar: Nosy / Boraha: 5 km N Ambo- / difotatra [16°57’51”S 49°51’44”E, 0 m], 15.iv.1982 / leg. Barkemayer’ (NMSA); 1&amp;male; ‘On beach / Fenerive [Fenoarivo – 17°22’11”S 49°24’39”E, 0 m], / Madagascar / Dec.1955 / B Stuckenberg’ (NMSA)*; 4&amp;female; ‘Madagascar Sud-Est / Sainte-Luce S [24°48’10”S 47°09’49”E], 1 0 m / dct. Fort-Dauphin / 22–24.ii.53, B Stuckenberg’ (NMSA)*. MAURITIUS: 2&amp;female; ‘ St. Brandon / Raphaël [16°25’43”S 59°36’40”E, 0 m] / 28.iv.67 / CM Courtois (NMSA)*; 2&amp;male; 1&amp;female; ‘Mauritius / Albatros Id / St Brandon [16°35’S 59°37’E, 0 m] / 29.iv.67 / CM Courtois (NMSA)*; 1&amp;female; ‘Mauritius / Fort William [20°09’09”S 57°28’55”E, 0 m] / 12.xii.1961 / CM Courtois’ (NMSA); 1&amp;female; ‘Mauritius / Palmer [20°12’42”S 57°47’32”E, 0 m] / 14.iii.1939 / CM Courtois’ (NMSA with prey - Heteroptera Veliidae,)*; 1&amp;male; 2&amp;female; 1? ‘Mauritius / Ile aux Cerfs [20°16’25”S 57°48’26”E, 0 m] / 20.i.1963 / CM Courtois’ (NMSA). SOUTH AFRICA: <i>KwaZulu-Natal:</i> 1&amp;male; ‘Mtunzini [28°57’49”S 31°46’03”E, 10 m] / Zululand 7.ii.65 / T. Schofield’ (NMSA)*; 1&amp;male; ‘South Africa: Natal / Umlalazi Nature Res. [28°57’49”S 31°46’03”E, 5 m] / 26–27.i.1987 / JGH Londt SE2831DD / Dune forest &amp; margin’ (NMSA); 1&amp;female; ‘Tugela River / Mouth [29°13’11”S 31°30’27”E, 0 m] / Natal / 9.iii.1962 / collector / T. Schofield (NMSA)*; 1&amp;female; ‘Blythdale / Beach [Stanger] [29°22’21”S 31°21’05”E, 0 m] / Natal / 25.ii.1963 / T.W. Schofield’ (NMSA)*; 1&amp;male; (holotype of <i>S. grossus</i>), ‘Durban [29°51’02”S 31°02’21”E, 0 m], / Bell-Marley’ (DMSA); 1&amp;female; (allotype of <i>S. grossus</i>), ‘Bluff [29°53’36”S 31°02’51”E, 0 m], Durban, / 27.iii.1920 / Barker (DMSA); 1&amp;male; ‘South Africa: Natal / Ramsgate 3030Cd [30°52’28”S 30°21’50”E, 0 m] / 10–18.i.1981 / JGH Londt (dunes)’ (NMSA). YEMEN: Yemen, Socotra Archipelago, Socotra Island: 1&amp;male;, bay of Sha’ab, <i>Avicennia</i> mangrove, 12°34’N 53°24’E [<i>c</i>. 7 m], 20.ii.1939, H. Pohl, HLMD-Dip-258. (Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany). Recorded by Geller-Grimm (2002). In addition the following material is found in the USNM collection (T. Dikow pers. comm.): 1&amp;female;, Kwale: Msambweni, on beach, –4.4736 39.4906 [<i>c</i>. 04°28’25”S 39°29’26”E, 7 m], 27.xii.1998 – 2.i.1999, R. Copeland (USNMENTO1096927); 7&amp;male; 2&amp;female;, same data but 3.i.2000 (USNMENTO1096973, USNM-ENTO1097316, USNMENTO1097319, USNM-ENTO1096893, USNMENTO1088490, USNM-ENTO1088498).
description: Published as part of <i>J. G. H. Londt &amp; R. S. Copeland, 2017, Nanoculcita, a new genus of Afrotropical robber fly from Kenya (Asilidae: Stichopogoninae), pp. 292-301 in African Entomology 25 (2)</i> on pages 299-300, DOI: 10.4001/003.025.0292, http://zenodo.org/record/1423134
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