Original description by Loew:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41528#page/671/mode/1up
nigricans, tota tomento obscure aureo, nitente tecta, quod in thorace brunnescit; alae totae aequaliter nigroinfumatae, cellulis marginalibus quatuor.
Groundcolour blackish, but totally covered with dark golden shining tomentum, brownish on the thorax; wings all uniformly black, with four marginal cells.
Description & key by Hesse:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40844644#page/946/mode/1up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40844644#page/939/mode/1up
Distribution: Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Tanzania, Zambia
Observation on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194969839
Description by Ricardo:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84522#page/114/mode/1up
Red, with a black dorsal line on the abdomen.
Face yellowish brown, with black pubescence and whitish scaly hairs.
Proboscis not quite so long as the fore femora and tibiae together.
Hind part of head red, with white scaly hairs bordering the eyes.
The collar is composed of yellow-brown hairs, with a few black ones intermixed.
Thorax brown, with black pubescence and bristles and yellowish scaly hairs; the pubescence on the sides, the breast, and above the halteres consists of yellow-brown hairs and a few black ones, and a white tuft above the base of the wings.
Scutellum reddish, black at the base.
Abdomen bright red, with the first segment black, and a dorsal black stripe, consisting of triangular spots with their bases on the fore borders and their apices on the hind borders of the segments, diminishing in size and extending from the second to the sixth segment, becoming fainter on the last two; the last segment is wholly red; there is a short line of white scaly hairs on the posterior border of the first segment, and on the anterior border of the second, and an oblong spot of thick white scaly hairs on the posterior border of the third segment; the last two segments are more or less covered with white scaly hairs.
Legs red, with black pubescence and bristles.
Illustration of wing: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37730#page/77/mode/1up
Description by Hesse: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40845034#page/661/mode/1up
Easily recognized by the wing-pattern in which the infuscation in marginal cell extends farther apicalwards than in other South African species except dentiferus in which there is however also a projection down the first posterior cell and in which the entire body is reddish and the white scaling across tergite 3 is band-like.
Distribution: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa ("Transvaal"), Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Observation on iNat:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74511809
Description by Loew:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35325#page/248/mode/1up
Body, apart from the usual reddish humeri, postalar calli, scutellum and extensive reddish on sides of abdomen and across hind margins of tergites, mostly black above.
Collar yellow-brownish, bordered with black hairs on its posterior edge. On the lateral edge of the thorax, as well as on the sides and in front of the wings, the hair is yellow-brown.
Three longitudinal stripes on the thorax.
On the upper side of the abdomen, white scales form a transverse line on each side of the first ring and
there is a patch of white scales on sides of tergite 3 in form of a transverse quadrangular spot; white scaling also completely covers the last two rings; the remaining scaling is partly brownish, partly black, without a clear separation of the two colors.
Description by Hesse:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40844644#page/658/mode/1up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40844644#page/650/mode/1up
Wing illustrated in Loew:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35325#page/349/mode/1up
This is the common Litorhina species of the Cape and is easily recognized by its characteristic wing-pattern, long stylar element and the long proboscis.
Distribution: Namibia, South Africa (Eastern Cape, Free State, Northern Cape, Western Cape)
Observation on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142610126