Taxonavigation

Familia: Acroceridae
Subfamilia: Philopotinae
Genus: Africaterphis
Species: Africaterphis acroceroides

Name

• Africaterphis acroceroides (Sabrosky, 1950)
  • Authority for current placement: Schlinger, 1968: 62 ('new comb.')
  • Original genus: Terphis
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated
    • Description: [adult] male
    • Repository: BMNH ['Type material of the two species has been returned to the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology for ultimate deposit in the British Museurn']
  • Type locality: 'BELGIAN CONGO: Tenke, Katanga'

References

• Barraclough, D.A. 1984: Review of some Afrotropical Acroceridae, with descriptions of eight new species from South Africa (Diptera: Brachycera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 47(1): 45-66.

• Hauser, M. & Winterton, S.L. 2007. A new fossil genus of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(2): 152–156. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS]2.0.CO;2 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Sabrosky, C.W. 1950: A new genus and two new species of, and miscellaneous notes on African Acroceridae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 19(3-4): 47–52. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1950.tb00924.x
• Schlinger, E.I. 1968: Africaterphis, a new genus for the African species of Terphis, and a redescription of the Brazilian genus Terphis Erichson (Diptera: Acroceridae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 20(1): 59–62.