Anastoechus nitidulus (Fabricius, 1794)

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 13-14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158701

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6272194

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Anastoechus nitidulus (Fabricius, 1794)
status

 

Anastoechus nitidulus (Fabricius, 1794) View in CoL

Material: 41 specimens: Al Muwaqqar 7.X.2002 (6ɗ, 13Ψ); Ar Rummanah 28.IX.2002 (2ɗ, 2Ψ); Dana 23.III.1995 (1ɗ, 1Ψ); Rum 30.III.2000 (1Ψ), Um Ishrin 31.III.2000 (2ɗ), 1.IV.2000 (2ɗ, 1Ψ); Wadi An Nawatif 27.IX.2002 (1ɗ, 3Ψ); Wadi shuqayq 24.IX.2002 (3ɗ, 1Ψ); No data (2ɗ).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia­Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Macedonia, Mongolia, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Slovakia, Turkey.

It appears to be common in dry regions of Jordan. It was collected from Lactuca orientalis Boiss (Compositae) and Polygonum equisetiforme Sibth (Polygonaceae) . The larvae of this species were reared from Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus) and other species of Acrididae (du Merle, 1975).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Anastoechus

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