Physocephala chrysorrhoea (Meigen, 1824)

El-Hawagry, Magdi, Soliman, Ahmed Mostafa & Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, 2021, The family Conopidae (Diptera) in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60287-60287 : 60287

Physocephala chrysorrhoea (Meigen, 1824)

Conops chrysorrhoea Meigen, 1824: 128. Type locality: Austria.

Conops pallasi Meigen, 1824: 128. Type locality: Russia.

Conops serpylleti Zeller, 1842: 837. Type locality: Germany.

Physocephala zarudnyi Becker, 1913: 614. Type locality: Iran.

Physocephala truncata var. pseudomaculigera Kröber, 1915: 72. Type locality: Egypt & Tunisia.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: H.C.E & M.T.; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Burg ; decimalLatitude: 30.9081; decimalLongitude: 29.5464; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-25-1927; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Tewfik; sex: 1 male, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Burg ; decimalLatitude: 30.9081; decimalLongitude: 29.5464; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 05-10-1927; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Selim; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Ein Moussa ; decimalLatitude: 29.8667; decimalLongitude: 32.6500; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 02-07-1928; Record Level: institutionCode: ESEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Farag; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: W. Dar El-Maskhara ; decimalLatitude: 29.7833; decimalLongitude: 31.4167; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-21-1927; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: H.C.E & M.T.; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: W. Garawi ; decimalLatitude: 29.7833; decimalLongitude: 31.3167; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-25-1932; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: H.C.E & M.T.; sex: 2 males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: W. Morrah ; decimalLatitude: 22.3500; decimalLongitude: 33.7500; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-01-1925; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Farag; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Wadi Hoff ; decimalLatitude: 29.8820558; decimalLongitude: 31.3109855; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-04-1927; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Efflatoun; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Wadi Um-Elek ; decimalLatitude: 29.8833; decimalLongitude: 31.5167; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-12-1924; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Farag; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Wadi Um-Elek ; decimalLatitude: 29.8833; decimalLongitude: 31.5167; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-13-1930; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shafik & Str.EFC; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Girza ; decimalLatitude: 29.499684; decimalLongitude: 31.073799; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 03-05-1950; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Farag; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Abu-Rawash ; decimalLatitude: 30.043845; decimalLongitude: 31.092932; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 05-05-1926; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.M.; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Abu-Rawash ; decimalLatitude: 30.043845; decimalLongitude: 31.092932; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 04-03-1926; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Farag; sex: 3 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Helwan ; decimalLatitude: 29.8500; decimalLongitude: 31.3333; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 04-13-1935; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Farag; sex: 1 male, 2 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Helwan ; decimalLatitude: 29.8500; decimalLongitude: 31.3333; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 04-28-1934; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shafik; sex: 3 males, 3 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Ein Gedeirat ; decimalLatitude: 30.6500; decimalLongitude: 34.4333; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 5/24-29/1938; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: H.C.E & M.T.; sex: 2 males, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569093; scientificName: Physocephala chrysorrhoea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: W. El-Arbaein (Sinai) ; decimalLatitude: 28.5469; decimalLongitude: 33.9530; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 4/19-27/1939; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC

Distribution

AF: Saudi Arabia [as "South-western part"]. PA: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine.

Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 6 ): EGYPT: Coastal Strip: Burg El-Arab, Mariout (February to May); Eastern Desert: Bir El-Fahm, Ogret El-Sheikh, Wadi El-Mallah, Wadi El-Maskhara, Wadi Garawi, Wadi Hoff, Wadi Morrah, Wadi Um-Elek, Wadi Zohleiga (March and April); Fayoum: Girza, Sennouris (January to March); Gebel Elba: locality unknown (January); Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Abu-Rawash, Barrage, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Hawamdiya, Helwan, Kafr Hakim, Kubba, Maadi, Mansouriah, Mazghouna (February to August); Sinai: Ein Gedeirat, Ein Moussa, Wadi El-Arbaein, Wadi El-Rabba (February to May); Western Desert: Dahshour (April) [Sources: Azmy (2016) and museum material in EFC and ESEC]. SAUDI ARABIA: locality and date unknown [Sources: Stuke (2017)].

Figures

Figure 6. Local distribution map of Physocephala chrysorrhoea (Meigen) and Physocephala pusilla (Meigen) in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.