Stichopogon elegantulus (Wiedemann)

Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Gad Allah, Sohair M., Soliman, Ahmed M., Salama, Mohamed S. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2017, Review of robber flies of the genus Stichopogon Loew (Diptera: Asilidae: Stichopogoninae) from Egypt, Zootaxa 4242 (1), pp. 142-160 : 151-152

Stichopogon elegantulus (Wiedemann)

( Figs 8 , 14B )

Dasypogon elegantulus Wiedemann, 1820: 270 ; Stichopogon aequecinctus Costa, 1844: 62 ; Stichopogon tener Loew, 1847: 503 ;

Stichopogon frauenfeldi Egger, 1855: 5 ;

Stichopogon riparius Loew, 1871: 93 ;

Stichopogon caspicus Richter, 1963: 253 .

Type locality. Portugal.

Diagnosis. Length: Body 4.5̄ 7 mm, wing 2.7̄ 3.5 mm. Small blackish species with silvery-white tomentum; mystax white; antenna blackish; legs black except basal third of tibiae and base of metatarsi which are reddishbrown, pulvilli normal; cell m3 broadly open, with a short basal stalk; apical margin of abdominal tergites 2̄5 with large black spots devoid of tomentum.

Local distribution. Coastal Strip, Lower Nile Valley, Eastern Desert, Sinai, Fayoum.

Geographical distribution. Algeria, Austria, Bosnia?Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Middle Asia, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Transcaucasia, Tunisia, Turkey.

Specimens examined. Helwan, 3.IX.2005 (1 ♀) ( ASUC); Abu Rawash, 15.VII.1921 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Sakkara, 31.III.1922 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 9.VII.1922 (2 ♂, 2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 3.VI.1924 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Rawash , 4.V.1925 (1 ♂ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 20.VIII.1926 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 8.VII.1927 (1 ♂ det. by Efflatoun); Mirsa Matrouh , VIII.1930 (4 ♂, 16 ♀) ; Raffa, 25.IV.1931 (1 ♂); Mirsa Matrouh, VII, VIII.1931 (1 ♂, 7 ♀); Helwan, 17.IV.1934 (1 ♀); Arish, 6.V.1934 (2 ♀); Wadi Gedeirat, 8.V.1934 (1 ♀); Wadi Wirak, N. Galalah, 4.IV.1937 (2 ♂, 9 ♀); Ein Gedeirat, 13-22.IV.1938 (1 ♂); Wadi Gedeirat, 6-10.VII.1938 (1 ♂); Wadi Gedeirat, 12-16.VII.1939 (1 ♀); Wadi El-Rabba, Sinai, 21-24.IV.1940 (1 ♀) ; Wadi El- Lega, 6.IX.1940 (1 ♀); Fayoum, Girza Route, 14.IV.1947 (2 ♂, 1 ♀); Rafa, Wadi El-Garadi, 21.VIII.1951 (3 ♀) ( CUC); Alexandria, Ramleh, 1.VII.1920 (3 ♂, 1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Barrage, 25.III.1921 (2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Wadi Hoff, 14.IV.1921 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Ezbet El-Nakhl, 25.IV.1921 (1 end of abdomen broken det. by Efflatoun); Dashar, 28.IV.1921 (2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Ramleh, 17.IX.1921 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Sakkara, 31.III.1922 (1 ♂ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 9.VII.1922 (2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun) ( PPDD); Abu Kir, 9.VII.1922 (2 ♀) ; Wadi Garawi, 19.IV.1923 (1 ♀); Abu kir, 3.VI.1924 (2 ♀); Nouzha, Alexandria, 30.VII.1924 (1 ♀) ; Mansouriah, 28.IV.1926 (3 ♀); Abu Kir, 20. VIII.1926 (1 ♀) ( AUCE).

Figures

FIGURE 8 Stichopogon elegantulus (Widemann), habitus; A, B. (♀) body length = 5.9 mm; C. (♂) body length = 5.4 mm.

FIGURE 14 A, B. Wings. of Stichopogon deserti, S. elegantulus; C, D Last abdominal segments in female Stichopogon chrysostoma, S. scaliger Loew respectivily.