Pachylophus flavipes
Creators: name: Deeming, John C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chloropidae
Pachylophus
Pachylophus flavipes

description: Pachylophus flavipes (Lamb, 1917)
(Plate 2, Figs 8, 9; plate 4, Fig. 20; plate 5, Fig. 23; plate 12, Figs 60, 61)
Steleocerus flavipes Lamb, 1917: 40
Described from Mozambique and further recorded from Burundi, Liberia, Nigeria and Uganda. The holotype male is in good condition, but has one wing missing.
Material: 1♂, N. NIGERIA: Zaria 10.iii.1966, J.C. Deeming; 2♂, 25km N. of Zaria, 8.ix.1979, J.C. Deeming; 9♂12♀, all with individual puparia, Zaria, Samaru, reared ex shoots Sporobolus pyramidalis xi.1972, J.C. Deeming; 1♀, Samaru, x.1979, J.C. Deeming; 1♀, same data but 2.vii.1967, m. v. trap; 9♂ 3♀, Mambilla Plateau, Ngel Nyaki, forest edge, 27–29.xii.1989, D.P. Knoop; 1♀, Bauchi, on pond grasses, 1–7.iii.1997, J.C.Deeming; 1♀, GHANA: Legon, x-xii.1988, M. Cobblah; 1♂, KENYA: Thika, Sports Club, 14.vi.1983, K. A. Spencer; 1♂, Bungoma, 6–7.xi.1983, I. Yarom; (all in NMWC); 1♂ 2♀, same data but coll A. Freidberg (TAU); 1♀, Bungoma, 1140m, ix.2007, M.R. Wilson (NMWC); 1♀, Masai Mara, Keekorok Lodge, 29–30.viii.1983, A. Freidberg (all in TAU); 1♂ 1♀, Kasarani, 10.viii.1989, J.W. Ismay (OUM); 2♂ 1♀, Nairobi, 7.i.1971, A.E. Stubbs; 1♂ 1♀, Kisumu, 19.xii.1970, A.E. Stubbs (all in NHMUK); 2♂ 4♀, (1♀ with Laboulbeniales on abdomen) UGANDA: NE of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Collin's Camp, 31.viii.1994, (X977); 11♂ 15♀, (1♂ with Laboulbeniales on hind femur) same data but 15.vii.1994, (X973); 6♂18♀, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kyambura Game Reserve, 18.vii.1994, (X974); (all O. Krüger) (all ZSM); 1♀, Serere, 26.i.1973, J.L. Overman; 2♂ 6♀, (1♀ with Laboulbeniales on wing and abdomen) same data but 1972; 1♀, ZAMBIA: Lusaka, 9.iv.1994, J.N. Pollock; 1♂, SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Ukulinga Station, 3.x.1983, A Freidberg (all in NMWC); 1♀, Natal, 10km NE of Drummond, 18.ix.1983, A Freidberg (TAU); 2♂1♀, Natal, Nagel Dam, 10.vii.1954, B. Stuckenberg (NMP); 1♀, ANGOLA: Salazar, I.I. A. A. Farm, 7.iii.1972, BMSAE; 1m 3 mls. N. of Santa Comba, 7.iii.1972, BMSAE (both in NHMUK); 2♀, TANZANIA: SE slope of Kilimanjaro, Agric. Station S. of Marangu, 26.ii.1971, M. v. Tschirnhaus (X360); 4♂ 10♀, (1♀ with Laboulbeniales on costa of wing) same data (X359) (all in ZSM); 3♂, ZIMBABWE: Mazowe, 14, 16 & 27.ii.1997, J.W. Ismay (OUM).
Puparium 4.2mm in length, 1.0mm in greatest breadth, dirty yellow, tubular, shining; mandibular sclerite (Plate 4, Fig. 20); anterior spiracles transverse in orientation, situated on anterolateral corners of dorsal emergence flap; posterior spiracles with the usual 3 respiratory slits uncoloured and unraised.
The Ugandan specimen bearing Laboulbeniales on wing and abdomen was examined by Dr W. Rossi (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy), who states the fungus to be clearly related to Laboulbenia pachylophi Thaxter.
description: Published as part of Deeming, John C., 2018, A revision of the Afrotropical species of Pachylophus Loew (Diptera: Chloropidae) and some related Ovoviviparous genera, pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 4482 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1454415