Diatropomma annettae Greathead and Evenhuis 2001, sp. n.
Creators: name: Greathead, D. J.
name: Evenhuis, N. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Diatropomma
Diatropomma annettae

description: Diatropomma annettae Greathead and Evenhuis sp. n.  (Fig. 124)  
 Etymology: Named for Annette Greathead who collected part of the type series, and following François (1960) whose species was also named after his wife.   
 Material examined: Holotype Ò. TANZANIA: 70 miles N of Dodoma, 2.v.1966 (D. & A. Greathead) (BMNH). Paratypes. TANZANIA: 80 miles N of Dodoma, 2.v.1966, 1Ò1^ (A. H. Greathead); 20 miles E Dodoma, 26.iv.1967, 1^ (D. J. Greathead) (BMNH & DJG).   
 Diagnosis: This new species can be distinguished from the two previously described species by the preceding couplets.   
 Description: Holotype Ò. Length of body 9 mm; proboscis 2.5 mm; wing 11 mm. Head: Black, pale brownish inside oral cavity and on ventral part of genae. Eyes at vertex separated by about twice width of ocellar triangle which is set forward of vertex. Hair black. Frons and face with sparse deep golden scales. Occiput with a dense band of pale golden scales on the upper part of the eye margin. Antennae with the flagellum twisted as D. carcassoni (Bowden 1962: Fig. 2). Scape black, pedicel brown, flagellum yellow-brown and with gold tomentum, all hairs black. Proboscis blackish-brown. Palpi blackish with black hairs. Thorax: Black with brown tomentum. Hair very sparse, except on fore margin of mesothorax (collar), black except for golden ones above on fore margin of mesothorax. Mesonotum and scutellum with small sparse dull golden-yellow scales. Pleura without scales. Legs: Coxae and femora dark brown and with black scales, tibiae yellow-brown with dull gold scales, tarsi brown. All hair and bristles black, except for yellow-brown ones on fore tarsi above. Fore and mid femora without bristles, hind each with three antero-ventral ones. Claws almost straight, black. Wing: Venation as other two species. Infuscated brown with apex infused paler brown. Pattern almost as D. carcassoni (Bowden 1962: Fig. 4) but cell cua1 (fourth posterior) infuscate at apex so that the central clear area is more rectangular in outline, and pale spots at apex of discal cell wanting. Costal hook black, comb black with golden scales. Squama blackish, with a fringe of minute yellowish scales. Halter blackish brown. Abdomen: Black. Hairs sparse, black, uniformly covered in small dull golden-yellow scales. Male genitalia (Fig. 124): Dark brown, very similar to D. carcassoni but epiphallus more rounded at apex.   
 Paratype ^. Vestiture as in holotype, except that femora have extensive golden scaling. Wing pattern sexually dimorphic (as in D. claudia, François, 1960: Figs 1–2) with larger and more conspicuous pale spots, including one on crossvein m-m. Ovipositor with yellow hair and blackish spines.
description: Published as part of Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), pp. 105-224 in African Invertebrates 42 (1820) on pages 196-197, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909975