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Afrohercostomus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Dolichopodinae
Tribe:	Dolichopodini
Genus:	Afrohercostomus Grichanov, 2010
Type species
Hercostomus straeleni Vanschuytbroeck, 1951

Afrohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Many of the species were formerly from "Hercostomus Group I" (or the "Hercostomus" straeleni group), one of three groups of Afrotropical Hercostomus species created by Igor Grichanov in 1999.

Species

• Afrohercostomus afer (Rondani, 1873) – Ethiopia
• Afrohercostomus argyropus (Loew, 1858)
  • Afrohercostomus argyropus argyropus (Loew, 1858) – Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Afrohercostomus argyropus par (Parent, 1934) – Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
• Afrohercostomus blagoderovi (Grichanov, 1999) – Kenya
• Afrohercostomus caprivi (Grichanov, 2004) – Namibia
• Afrohercostomus congoensis (Curran, 1925) – Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Uganda
• Afrohercostomus dimidiatus (Curran, 1939) – Zimbabwe
• Afrohercostomus eronis (Curran, 1926) – Burundi, ?Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania
• Afrohercostomus golubtsovi (Grichanov, 1999) – Uganda
• Afrohercostomus jani (Dyte, 1957) – Cameroon, DR Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
• Afrohercostomus natalensis Grichanov, 2010 – South Africa
• Afrohercostomus rhodesiensis (Parent, 1939) – Zimbabwe
• Afrohercostomus straeleni (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951) – DR Congo, Uganda
• Afrohercostomus stuckenbergi Grichanov, 2010 – Lesotho, South Africa
• Afrohercostomus ultimus (Parent, 1935) – DR Congo, Kenya

References

1. ^ Grichanov, I. Ya. (2010). "A new genus of Dolichopodini from Tropical Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 21 (3): 183–194.
2. Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2018). "An annotated catalogue of afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera)". Plant Protection News, Supplements (25). St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR). doi:10.5281/zenodo.1187006.
3. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2011). "A key to the Afrotropical genera of the subfamily Dolichopodinae with descriptions of new taxa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (234): 1–33. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
4. ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (1999). "Afrotropical species of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 10 (1): 7–44.
5. Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2004). "Review of Afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Plant Protection News, Supplements. St.Petersburg: All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection RAAS: 1–244. ISSN 1815-3682.

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