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04 de octubre de 2023

iNat Firsts

A list of genera/species I identified the first observation for on iNaturalist, for personal record-keeping purposes, and to make it easier to rectify errors if needed.

Cestrotus obtusus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135221083
Heteralonia dolichoptera: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31167248
Poecilanthrax hyalinipennis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/140011479
Pterobates pennipes: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83723882
Petrorossia tropicalis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2391600
Ins minas: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145851447
Anthrax limatulus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127768764
Nyia harpyia: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68571381
Nyia alacer: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97358977
Nyia bizona: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104741214
Ins ignea: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151076338
Sparnopolius coloradensis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/130315480
Heterostylum engelhardti: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151882939 Actually an individual of Triploechus sackenii
Heteralonia corvina: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33763249
Brachydemia: Brachydemia latisoma: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79132495
Anthrax gideon: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22611963
Chrysanthrax ioptera: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108756715
Desmatoneura meridionalis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173813475
Lordotus divisus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101848843
Geminaria pellucida: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179636414
Thevenetimyia magna: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6854268
Anthrax cephus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182733480
Adelidea immaculata: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183881706
Sosiomyia comata: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183688103
Systropus marshalli: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60062491
Anthrax pauper: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156474375
Acreophthiria egerminans: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/187317898
Bombomyia acroleuca: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189370611
Paravilla floridensis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/188506511
Hyperalonia surinamensis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193143665
Exepacmus johnsoni: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9690315
Bombylius pulcher: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169278445, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169278446
Bombylius clio: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190939866
Neodiplocampta sepia: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78897571
Exoprosopa castaneus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182971245
Exoprosopa mongolica: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121609991
Euligyra enderleini: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21195913
Exoprosopa perpulchra: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193020247
Conophorina: Conophorina bicellularis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194305571
Paratoxophora: Paratoxophora cuthbersoni: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10924556
Pteraulax: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193782408
Heteralonia polysticta: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/140953213
Heteralonia furvalis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11119500
Mancia nana: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/115816964
Pantarbes megistus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1376358
Pantarbes pusio: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74124187
Nothoschistus maculatus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146537556
Canariellum acutangulum: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/226380779

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23 de octubre de 2023

Paratoxophora cuthbersoni Engel, 1936

A monotypic genus, recorded from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

Superficially similar to the cosmopolitan Toxophora, but body not entirely covered with tomentum like in that genus and not as humpbacked.

Costa orange infuscate, rest of wing hyaline. Halteres orange-yellowish. Abdominal pattern like that of Lomatia in the largely bare, shiny black tergites with pale yellow bands on the edges. Tergites 2 and 4 possess long white pile on the margin except at the center. Legs entirely black, with black bristles.

Original description in Occasional Papers of the Rhodesian Museum 1: no. 5, pages 39-41 (PDF available upon request).

One observation on iNaturalist so far, from Mpumalanga, South Africa: Link

Pinned specimen from AMNH collection:








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