Sarcophaga (Bercaea) africa

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Musca africa Wiedemann, 1824: 49 . Type locality: South Africa Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope .

Specimens examined. SAUDI ARABIA: 3♂, 2♀, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Mohammed Bakreen, 6.vi.2014, baited traps, H.A.Dawah (CERS) ; 1♂, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre), 15–30.v.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS) ; 1♂, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan, Malaise trap, 25.ii.–25.v.2002, H.A. Dawah (NMWC) ; 1♂, same locality but 1–2.iii.2013 (CERS); 1♂, Najran, Hay Al-Shurfa, 1–29.iv.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC) ; 1♂, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Mohammed Bakreen, 15.ix.2013, baited traps, H.A. Dawah (NMWC) . BENIN: 1♂, R.P. Benin (NMWC); Aborny, xii.1988, J.S. Noyes (NMWC) . BOTSWANA: 2♂, Tlokweng, 6–13.ii.1990, J. Moshonja (NMWC) . ETHIOPIA: 2♂, Alemaya, vii–viii,1985, T. Mesfin (NMWC) . IVORY COAST: 7♂, Lamoto, xi.1981, J.S. Noyes (NMWC) . 1♂, MALTA: Wied Beba, 20.iv.1994, J.C. Deeming (NMWC) . NIGERIA: 1♂, Zaria, Sameru, vii.1979, J.C. Deeming (NMWC) ; 1♂, Bouchi, Yankeri Game Reserve, 3–6.iv.1981, J.C. Deeming (NMWC) ; 1♂, same data but 3–10.ii.1981 (NMWC); 1♂, same data but 7–8.iii.1981, R. Dransfield (NMWC); 1♂, same data but 27–28.ii.1982, R. Brightwell (NMWC) . PORTUGAL: 1♂, Parque Natural Reserve da Ria Formosa, 3.v.1998, P.M. Paven (NMWC) . YEMEN: 1♂, Sana’a, iii. iv.1992, A. van Harten (NMWC) .

Distribution. Near cosmopolitan (few Neotropical and Australasian records).

Remarks. Listed for the first time from Saudi Arabia by Verves (1986a).