Aegyptobia hamus Chaudhri, 1972

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Aegyptobia hamus Chaudhri

Aegyptobia hamus Chaudhri, 1972: 20 .

Material examined — Two females, Kaviria lachnantha (Botsch.) Akhani (Amaranthaceae) , Khobar, 26°14′26.18016″N, 49°59′44.0574″E, 17 October 2019, coll. M. Kamran and H. M. Saqib; two females, Fagonia boveana (Hadidi) El Karemy and El Naggar (Zygophyllaceae) , near Dhahran Beach, 25°46′43.482″N, 49°35′13.4934″E, 17 October 2019, coll. M. Kamran and H. M. Saqib; seven females, Kaviria lachnantha, Khobar , 26°24′25.7508″N, 50°8′24.8477″E, 18 October 2019, coll. M. Kamran and H. M. Saqib; two females, Heliotropium bacciferum Forssk. (Boraginaceae) , Jubail, 26°58′16.320″N, 49°40′13.231″E, 19

October 2019, coll. M. Kamran and H. M. Saqib.

Distribution — Pakistan and Iran ( Chaudhri, 1972 ; Farzan and Asadi, 2015).

Known hosts — Heliotropium sp. (Boraginaceae) , Thuja orientalis (Cupressaceae) , Cassia fistula (Leguminosae) , Fallopia convolvulus (Polygonaceae) ( Chaudhri, 1972 ; Chaudhri and Akbar, 1985, Farzan and Asadi, 2015, Castro et al., 2022).