Pachylophus flavipes ( Lamb 1917 )

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, An overview of the Chloropidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4791 (1), pp. 1-71 : 53

Pachylophus flavipes ( Lamb 1917)

( Figs 59 , a, b)

Steleocerus flavipes Lamb 1917: 40

Specimens examined. 2♂, Najran, Al-Shurfa, Saleh Maqbol Farm , 7–28.i.2015, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC; CERS) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from Mozambique and is further recorded from Angola, Burundi, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe ( Deeming, 2018).

Remarks. This is an abnormal specimen in that the ocellar prominence is totally shiny. It has been reared from the grass Sporobolus pyramidalis Beauv. in Nigeria ( Deeming 2018).

Figures

FIGURE 59. Pachylophus flavipes (Lamb,1917). Male, a) head from above, b) in profile.