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Issue: Vol. 1147 No. 1: 10 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1147.1.3
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Eomedina Mesnil (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Namibia

Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Viale dell’Università 32, 00185 Rome, Italy
Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Diptera Eomedina hamoyensis Blondeliini Namibia identification key distribution

Abstract

In this paper a blondeliine tachinid, Eomedina hamoyensis sp. nov., from Namibia is described, illustrated and compared with the only known congeneric species E. apicalis (Curran). The Afrotropical genus Eomedina has a blunt, scoop-like and well sclerotized ovipositor, and based on this derived structure appears to belong to the “Medina genus-group”. The new species is known only from several females and they differ from females of E. apicalis in lacking a pair of proclinate orbital setae and in having just one pair of reclinate upper orbital setae.

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