Epimadiza rugosa ( de Meijere, 1906 )

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 : 22

Epimadiza rugosa ( de Meijere, 1906)

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Oscinis rugosa de Meijere, 1906: 334 .

Specimens examined. 1♀, Jazan, Abu Aresh, Al-Mahdag village , 4.iii.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 1♂, 1♀, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre), 3.iii.2001, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah (2006); El-Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Cameroun and further recorded from Ghana, Sierra Leone and Yemen ( Sabrosky 1980; Deeming & Al-Dhafer 2012). However, there is much material of E. rugosa in NMWC from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali and Kenya.

Remarks. This species was placed in correct generic combination by Becker (2010a) in Epimadiza . The specimens of this species shows considerable variation in the development of their fore femoral armature. Sabrosky (1947) cited two rearing records from Sierra Leone, being from a cassava stem and “ex Ceroplastes on coffee”. One of us (J.C. Deeming) has reared it from the mines of Alcidodes ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ) in the fibre crop rama ( Hibiscus sp.) in Northern Nigeria: Zaria Province, Jemma’a, Pawadina, Tudun Guadi, 29.viii.1966.

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FIGURE 20. Epimadiza rugosa (de Meijere, 1906). Male.