Illustrations of African blood-sucking flies other than mosquitoes and tsetse-flies / by Ernest Edward Austen.

  • Ernest Edward Austen
Date:
1909
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Credit: Illustrations of African blood-sucking flies other than mosquitoes and tsetse-flies / by Ernest Edward Austen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was obtained in Cape Colony, and Macquart’s misleading statement that the type of the species was “ De l’Oceanie, cap des Aiguilles,” is doubtless due to a confusion between Cape Agulhas,* the most southerly headland in Africa, and Aiguilles Point, off the coast of New Zealand. Cadicera melanopyga, Wiedemann. Zoologisches Magazin, Bd. I., Stuck III., p. 31 (1819) [Pangonia melanopyga] : Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten, I., p. 98 (1828) [.Pangonia melanopyga]. Plate III., fig. 20. Of this species, which, like the foregoing, occurs in Cape Colony, the Museum possesses four specimens—one male (locality unknown) and three females : of the latter, one specimen was obtained in “ South Africa,” before 1844 (Dr. Andrew Smith) ; another, which bears no more precise indication of its origin than the word “ Africa,” was acquired by purchase in January, 1846 (ex Colonel WhitehilV s Collection) ; and the third was taken at Deelfontein, Cape Colony, on December 20th, 1902 (presented by Colonel A. T. Sloggett, C.M.G., R.A.M.C.). Cadicera chrysostigma, Wiedemann. Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten, I., p. 100 (1828) [Pangonia chrysostigma]. Plate III., fig. 21. This handsomely marked species, the type of which was obtained at the Cape of Good Hope, is represented in the Museum Collection Agulha = needle (Portuguese).