. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 632 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM as such in literature may not be the same as the one described by Thunberg. It may even prove to be the species tollini described by Loew (p. 15, Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vii) in 1863, the identity of which, owing to the very brief and unsatisfactory description, is also very doubtful. In this revision it is, however, provisionally also placed under the name of maurus by which it has become known in literature and in the various collections. The species is chiefly
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 632 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM as such in literature may not be the same as the one described by Thunberg. It may even prove to be the species tollini described by Loew (p. 15, Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vii) in 1863, the identity of which, owing to the very brief and unsatisfactory description, is also very doubtful. In this revision it is, however, provisionally also placed under the name of maurus by which it has become known in literature and in the various collections. The species is chiefly characterized as follows:. Text-fig. 206. Side view of last sternite (left) of 6* Litorrhynchus maurus (Thb.), side view of hypopygium and dorsal view of beaked apical joint (middle), and ventral view of the aedeagal apparatus (right) of <J of same species. Body with the red on sides of tergites 2 and 3 often very extensive in <£; venter in o* often mainly reddish or reddish brown, with a broadish, central, black band, in $ predominantly black, only sides basally and to a certain extent the hind margins of sternites reddish; pleurae brownish or sienna-brownish; face without black on sides; antennal joints 1 and 2 usually also yellowish or reddish brownish; proboscis black, but reddish above; legs reddish brownish, the extreme apices of femora and bases of tibiae and apical parts of tarsi dark or blackish. Vestiture with the hairs in collar, upper anterior part of mesopleural tuft, in propleural tuft, in tuft on pteropleuron and in anterior part of meta- pleural tuft deep fulvous reddish, fiery reddish or deep orange reddish; rest of hair and hair-like scales on pleurae, except black bristly elements, more velvety brownish or brownish red; hairs behind collar, on sides of thorax above, bristles on thorax and scutellum, dense hairs on sides of abdomen, hairs on venter, and spines and spicules on legs black; fine scaling on thorax above mostly dark, but gleaming velvety br
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