Thinophilus indigenus Becker, 1902

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2020, The family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula: identification key, an updated list of species and new records from Saudi Arabia, Journal of Natural History 54 (21 - 22), pp. 1425-1454 : 1442

Thinophilus indigenus Becker, 1902

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Specimens examined

1♂, Asir, Karatha, Al-Ethrebany Fruit Farm , 6–27 .v .2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS); 1♂, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm , 1 .ii .2012 Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS); 1♀, Jazan, Abu Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village , 4 .iii .2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS).

Distribution

This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. The species was described from Egypt (Cairo, Assiut, Assuan, Fayûm, Luxor and Suez) and further recorded from the Palaearctic ( Algeria, Iran, Israel, Mongolia and Turkey), Afrotropical ( Angola, Benin, Cape Verde Islands, Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Angola, Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Yemen) and Oriental regions (Borneo, China (Taiwan), India, Malaya, Nepal and Philippines) ( Grichanov 2017a, 2018).

Remarks. This species is known to inhabit the freshwater marshes and streams ( Grootaert and Evenhuis 1997).

Figures

Figure 5. Dolichopodid species habitus: a – Thinophilus indigenus Becker; b – Thinophilus ochripalpis Becker; c – Thinophilus promotus Becker; d – Thinophilus spinulosus Parent; e – Medetera grisescens De Meijere; f – Micromorphus aereus (Vaillant).