Xenomyia pseudolispe Emden, 1951

Xenomyia pseudolispe Emden, 1951 View in CoL

Diagnosis. (modified from Emden 1951). Length: body 4.9 mm; wing 4.7 mm. Ocellar setae present; fronto-orbital plate narrower than frontal vitta; proboscis stout and bulbous, dusted; facial ridges with few setulae near vibrissa; claws long and strong; presutural intra-alar seta absent; anepimeron setulose ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 21–26 , modified from Fig. 47 View FIGURES 46–51 of Emden 1951); katepisternals 0:1; postpedicel sharply angular at dorsal apex, fore tibia with a posterior seta beyond middle; hind tibia with a fine median posterodorsal seta; hind metatarsus modified, very slender in basal two-thirds and strongly thickened and with some setae on apical third ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 16–20 , modified from Fig. 48 View FIGURES 46–51 of Emden 1951).

Note. Described from male from Kenya, Aberdares, Thompson’s Falls. Holotype deposited at NHMUK. This is the only Xenomyia species with setulae on anepimeron, but in a different position as in Lispe (the former having the setulae in front of the anterior end of the infrasquamal ridge, and not like the latter where the setulae are in the middle of anepimeron between lower anterior end of infrasquamal ridge and the suture with katepisternum. Also, the parafacialia of this species is bare. Emden (1951: 496) made some considerations about the position of this species in Xenomyia .