Atherigona bifida Deeming 1971

Atherigona (s. str.) bifida Deeming, 1971 Fig. 1a Material examined GUINEA • 5 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; Nimba, “Fôrét du Zié” [Zié Forest]; 1500 m a.s.l.; 6 Jan. 1984; C. Girard leg.; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; NMWC. Remarks Described from a single male from the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria (Deeming 1971: 173). Female: apart from sexual characters differing from the male in the following respects: palpus black; scutellum black throughout; pleura black in ground colour with exception of propleuron and anterior one third of anepisternum; all tarsi infuscate; fore femur black on all but extreme base and apex; fore tibia black on apical two thirds of its length; a pair of brownish black spots on tergites 4 and 5, those on 4 longer and more triangular in shape, those on 5 oblong; tergite 8 (Fig. 1a). Distribution Guinea, Nigeria.Published as part of Deeming, John C., 2022, Some Afrotropical species of Atherigona Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) revisited and a new species described, pp. 121-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 847 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1987, http://zenodo.org/record/738743