The afrotropical Anthomyia species are revised to include 19 species. Ten new species are described: acutula, concava, latilamina, malagasica, parapluvialis, stuckenbergi, subabyssinica, subornata, verecunda, and whitei. Four new synonymies are established: Anthomyia griseobasis Malloch, 1924 = Anthomyia maculigena Stein, 1913; Anthomyia inda Ackland & Pont, 1977 (new name for indica Malloch, 1924, preocc.) = Anthomyia benguellae Malloch, 1924; Anthomyia spinigera Malloch, 1924 = Anthomyia abyssinica Jaennicke, 1867; Hylemyia fasciata Walker, 1858 = Anthomyia amoena (Macquart, 1851). The majority of the afrotropical species (16 including those described in this paper) belong to the recently proposed Anthomyia pluvialis section (Griffiths 2001), which corresponds to Anthomyia in the previously restricted sense. The remaining three species belong to Griffiths' A. liturata subsection. In addition to the A. pluvialis superspecies (already characterised by Griffiths), three new superspecies groups are proposed for the afrotropical species in the A. pluvialis section: the A. ornata superspecies, the A. amoena superspecies, and the A. abyssinica superspecies; one species (concava) is treated as a species sola.

To cite this paper: Ackland, D.M. 2001. Revision of afrotropical Anthomyia Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), with descriptions of ten new species. African Invertebrates 42: 1-94.

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Ackland, D.M. 2008. Revision of Afrotropical Delia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), with descriptions of six new species. African Invertebrates 49 (1): 1-75. [Abstract]