. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. THEREVINE STILETTO-FLIES OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION 239 Thorax. Mesonotum almost uniformly dark brownish and dull, with two indistinct paler brownish stripes. Mesonotal pile short and black. Scutellum coloured like the mesonotum, with 4 sc setae, the lateral pair shorter and weaker than the subapical pair. Pleura with a thin layer of whitish tomentum, upper part of mesopleuron slightly brownish. Wings. Cell M3 broadly open. Vein /?4 with only a slight curve on middle section. Colour uniformly greyish brown. Stigma, veins and halteres
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. THEREVINE STILETTO-FLIES OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION 239 Thorax. Mesonotum almost uniformly dark brownish and dull, with two indistinct paler brownish stripes. Mesonotal pile short and black. Scutellum coloured like the mesonotum, with 4 sc setae, the lateral pair shorter and weaker than the subapical pair. Pleura with a thin layer of whitish tomentum, upper part of mesopleuron slightly brownish. Wings. Cell M3 broadly open. Vein /?4 with only a slight curve on middle section. Colour uniformly greyish brown. Stigma, veins and halteres brownish black. Legs. F1 and /2 without setae. F3 with a single av and pv seta near tip. Legs almost uniformly dirty yellowish brown to brown. Pile on femora and tibiae mostly blackish. Abdomen. Almost uniformly brownish to brownish black and shining. Tergites without any distinctly marked pattern, but lateral areas appearing paler. Small areas of whitish tomentum at postero-lateral corners of tergites 1-2 and 4-5. Pile short and sparse, consisting of both blackish and pale hairs. Terminalia (Text-figs 139-144). Epandrium and gonocoxites shining brownish black with black pile. Epandrium as in Text-fig. 141. Gonocoxite (Text-fig. 139) much shorter than epandrium, with a moderately long projection ventrally. Distal end of dorsal gonocoxal process comparatively long and slender. Stylus and ventral lobe (Text-fig. 140) of quite normal shape. Phallus in lateral view (Text-fig. 143) with a straight proximal section, then curved rather abruptly downwards at ca 90 degrees, the tip itself strongly upcurved; in dorsal view (Text-fig. 144), the phallus is narrow and gradually decreases in width. Dorsal apodeme small. Tergite 8 not preserved intact in the dissection. Sternite 8: Text-fig. 142. Total length 4-8 mm. $. Unknown. Material examined. Holotype J, Madagascar: Tarn., Moramanga, {Fred Reiser) (NMB).. 140 142 144 Figs 139-144. Male terminalia of Stenopomyia minor, holotype.
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