Afrorhynchus Ribeiro, 1992

Species of Toxorhynchites are extremely similar in all life stages; adult characters are used to characterise and distinguish the subgenera. ADULTS ‒ Maxillary palpus of females short, about 0.25 length of proboscis, apex rounded; antenna of females normal; integument of scutum mainly blackish, scales greenish; postpronotum and thoracic pleura mainly or entirely yellow; postpronotum and forecoxa with golden scales, contrasting with dark greenish scales of scutum; pleural scaling mainly white, lower mesokatepisternal and prealar scales golden; mesokatepisternum with or without 1 or 2 strong dark setae and some scattered weaker setae; laterotergite of abdominal segment I with few or no scales; terga II‒VIII with golden or purplish scaling on lateral margins, lateral tufts of terga VI‒VIII golden, red or orange; halter with yellow capitellum; sterna golden-scaled; femora golden-scaled ventrally; hindtibia with patch of whitish scales on distal third of dorsal surface; hindtarsomere 1 with indication of narrow white ring some distance from base, hindtarsomere 2 entirely dark-scaled, hindtarsomere 3 with basal white ring; midungues of males small, equal, simple. MALE GENITALIA ‒ Gonocoxite noticeably widened at mid-length, with very long and stout setae on inner surface; gonostylus dark, gonostylar claw inserted at right angle to gonostylus, very long, nearly one-third length of gonostylus; aedeagus with wide dorsal aedeagal bridge; paraproct with unsclerotised transverse band. LARVAE and PUPAE ‒ Poorly studied or unknown, known larvae of some species are indistinguishable based on currently incomplete descriptions. See genus Toxorhynchites.