Chrysops laticeps, Austen 1910 - Identification

A stoutly built thickset species, with broad head and sharply defined, narrow, oblique, transverse band on wings.
Head cream-buff pollinose, smoke-grey on vertex. Antenne relatively short. Thorax yellowish-grey pollinose, dorsum in front with two, buff-coloured longitudinal stripes, widely separated and not or scarcely extending beyond transverse suture. Abdomen ochraceous-buff at base, dorsum of second to seventh segments with a brown transverse band, hind borders of these segments yellowish grey pollinose, last three segments and hind borders of third and fourth segments thickly clothed above with ochre-yellow hair. Legs, except middle and hind coxae and tips of tarsi, cinnamon, hind tibiae fringed on outer side with ochre-yellow hair.

Original description by Austen:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/51594

Distribution: Known from Kosi Bay (type locality); Ndumu; Ntsengwane area; Lake St Lucia; Eshowe and Malawi.

iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65531186

Posted on 25 de julho de 2023, 10:25 AM by traianbertau