Phycus marginatus Kröber, 1912

Badrawy, Haitham B. M., 2013, A review of the genera Acathrito Lyneborg, Phycus Walker and Salentia Costa (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae) from Egypt, Zootaxa 3635 (4), pp. 491-497 : 494

Phycus marginatus Kröber, 1912

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Phycus marginatus Kröber, 1912: 5 . Type locality: "Africa? Drory". Holotype female, Austria, Vienna, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NMW).

Phycus bicinctus Kröber, 1924: 87 . Type locality: "Cairo, 17.V.18 ". Holotype female, ESEC, destroyed (synonymy by Lyneborg 1978).

Phycus sobrinus Brunetti, 1929: 11 . Type locality: "Khartoum, 31.12.17, R.Cottam, No. 12525". Holotype female, United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum (BMNH) (synonymy by Lyneborg 1978).

Local distribution. Lower Nile.

Geographical distribution. Chad, Congo, Egypt, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan.

Specimens examined. Cairo 18.V.1954 (1 female) (ASUC); Ismailia 28.VII.1924 (1 male & 1 female); Tisfa 31.VIII.1929 (1 male); Abbassia 18.V.1944 (1 male); Kasr El-Nil 20.VI.1944 (1 female); Fayoum 9.IV.1946 (1 male) (CUC); Meadi 7.IX.1914 (1 female), 12.IX.1915 (1 female); Ismailia 2.VIII.1924 (1 female); Giza 22.VI.1942 (1 female) (MAC); Ismailia 28.VII.1924 (1 male) (AZUC).

Figures

FIGURES 2, 3. Phycus margintatus Kröber. 2. thorax, dorsal view. 3. antenna (adopted from Lyneborg 1983). 4, 5. P. rufofemoratus Kröber. 4. thorax, dorsal view. 5. antenna (adopted from Lyneborg 1983). 6. antenna of P. insignis Kröber (adopted from Lyneborg 1983).