Bengalia africanoides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Oestroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Muscomorpha Sectio: Schizophora Subsectio: Calyptratae Superfamilia: Oestroidea

Familia: Calliphoridae
Subfamilia: Bengaliinae
Tribus: Bengaliini
Genus: Bengalia
Species: Bengalia africanoides

Name

• Bengalia africanoides Rognes, 2012: 58, figs. 174–192

Holotype: MNHN, ♂.

Type locality: Central African Republic: LA MABOKE / 27.VIII.1970 / L. Matile rec.

Etymology: "The specific name “africanoides” is derived from the stem of “africana” with the addition of the Latin suffix “-oides” (meaning like, resembling, in the form of) referring to my immediate (and erroneous) belief that it was the male counterpart of B. africana, based on the female holotype, and the similarity of the two species with respect to the presence of almost only black setulae on the anepimeron."

References

• Rognes, K. 2012: Revision of the Afrotropical species of the Bengalia peuhi species-group, including a species reassigned to the B. spinifemorata species-group (Diptera, Calliphoridae), with notes on the identity of Ochromyia petersiana Loew, 1852 (Diptera, Rhiniidae). Zootaxa 3553: 1–79. Preview PDF Reference page.