Haematopota decora Walker, 1856 - Identification
Original description by Walker:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37471#page/470/mode/1up
Blackish brown. Head whitish on the vertex and behind, white beneath; front with three black whitish-bordered spots, the middle one small and hindward. Palpi while. Antennae black, rather longer than the head. Thorax with three much interrupted white stripes; the middle one dilated hindward. Scutellumm with a dark border. Abdomen glaucous-white towards the base beneath and on each side above and on the hind borders of the segments. Legs black; tibiae white towards the base; middle tibiae with a white band; hind tarsi white at the base. Wings whitish, with various blackish gray dots, and with two diffuse blackish gray partly whitish-dotted bands; stigma black. Halteres white.
Description by Loew (Haematopota dorsalis):
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35325#page/70/mode/1up
--> Abdomen with sublateral white spots on the apical segments (not mentioned by Walker).
Illustrated in Austen 1908:
Photo of wing in Ricardo 1906:
Ricardo, G. (1906). Notes on the genus Hæmatopota of the family Tabanidæ in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 18(104), 94–127. doi:10.1080/00222930608562585
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930608562585
Photos in Smit 2019:
https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/76793/Smit_Abundance_2019.pdf?sequence=1
This species is widespread in the Afrotropical region.
iNat observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171292363
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