Hybomitra decora ( Löw, 1858 )

Müller, Günter C., Prozorov, Alexey M., Traore, Mohamed M., Revay, Edita E., Hogsette, Jerome A., Kline, Daniel, Chaskopoulou, Alexandra, Prozorova, Tatiana A., Volkova, Julia S., Diarra, Rabiatou A., Petrányi, Gergely, Schneider, Tom, Beck, Robert H. - T., Ignatev, Nikolai, Yakovlev, Roman V., Cui, Liwang & Schlein, Yosef, 2023, The Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Greek islands and Cyprus: An annotated checklist with remarks on ecology, zoogeography, and new records on the East Mediterranean fauna, Ecologica Montenegrina 67, pp. 45-65 : 49

7. Hybomitra decora ( Löw, 1858)

Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 8, 588.

Type locality. Syria .

Range. Palearctic. East Mediterranean, from Bulgaria to Turkey, absent from the Greek mainland but found on Crete, in the south, in the Levant, from Syria to the Sinai Peninsula ( Chvála et al., 1972; Müller et al., 2012b; Chvála, 2013; Evenhuis & Pape, 2023).

New records. We collected two females in a Malaise trap at the edge of oak maquis on a rocky slope in central Cyprus , west of Agros, 1000 m a.s.l., mid-June 2017 (new record for Cyprus) .