Xenomyia stuckenbergi Zielke,1970

Couri, Márcia Souto, Sousa, Viviane Rodrigues De, Gomes, Marina & Gil-Azevedo, Leonardo H., 2025, The puzzling genus Xenomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae): taxonomic notes, key to species and redescription of Xenomyia hirtibasis (Bigot), Zootaxa 5570 (2), pp. 260-280 : 279

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14734994
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scientific name	Xenomyia stuckenbergi Zielke,1970
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Diagnosis. (modified from Zielke 1970) Length: 7.5 mm. Fronto-orbital plate narrower than frontal vitta; profile of head at antennal base much longer than at mouth margin, forming an acute angle. Eyes densely covered with short hairs; ocellar setae present; fronto-orbital plate narrower than frontal vitta; proboscis short, stout and bulbous, dusted; palpus brown; antenna brown; arista bare; dorsocentrals 2:3; katepisternals 1:1; prosternum bare; presutural intra-alar seta present. Fore tibia with 1–2 posterior seta; the last two tarsomeres dorsally dilated; hind tibia with only one short anterodorsal seta at middle; claws not enlarged. Calypter brownish; halter yellow.

Notes. Known from holotype male from South Africa, Umicomozana , Natal River. ( NMSA) .