Ephydra flavipes ( Macquart, 1843 ), 1978

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed K., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz, 2019, An overview of the Ephydridae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4711 (3), pp. 401-445 : 434

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scientific name

Ephydra flavipes ( Macquart, 1843 )
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Ephydra flavipes ( Macquart, 1843) View in CoL

Coenia flavipes Macquart, 1843: 412 View in CoL .

Ephydra flavipes: Mathis 1978: 105 View in CoL [generic combination]; Walker & Pittaway 1987: 107 [ Saudi Arabia]; Al-Houty 1989: 144–145 [ Kuwait]; Al-Ahmadi & Salem 1999: 158 [ Saudi Arabia]; Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 389 [ Saudi Arabia]; Mathis et al. 2017: 739–740 [ United Arab Emirates]; El-Hawagry et al. 2019: 33 [ Saudi Arabia].

Ephydra opaca Loew 1856: 55 View in CoL ; Mathis & Zatwarnicki 1995: 241 [synonymy].

Ephydra helwanensis Steyskal 1968: 110 View in CoL ; Wirth 1975: 32–35 [revision]; Mathis 1978: 105 [synonymy].

Specimens examined. 1 ♀, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan, Hay Al-Sad , 25. ii.–25. v. 2002, Malaise trap. H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Other Saudi Arabian records: without locality ( Walker & Pittaway 1987; Al-Ahmadi & Salem 1999); Asir Region: Madinat al-Ameer Sultan, 15 km E of Abha ( Dawah & Abdullah 2006) ; Riyadh Region: Rawdhat Khorim National Park ( El-Hawagry et al. 2019) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Walker & Pittaway (1987). The species was described from Sudan and has also been recorded from the following area: Afrotropical Region: Aldabra Group, Chad and United Arab Emirates; Palaearctic Region: widespread in Europe, Algeria, Canary Islands, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Libya, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. There are some specimens of E. flavipes in NMWC collected from Bahrain, Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, Oman and Yemen.

Biology. This species is the most common and widespread of the brine flies occurring around the Mediterranean ( Wirth 1975). Ferrar (1987) stated that larvae of Ephydra flavipes feed on algae, bacteria and flagellate protozoa in a variety of specialized aquatic situations. Wirth (1975) reported that the species is most often associated with rice culture in the Mediterranean area. However, Nasr et al. (1970) stated that in Egypt (as Ephydra macellaria Egger ) it did not damage rice seedlings grown under test conditions in the laboratory. Gatt & Ebejer (2003) regard it as a predominantly halophilous species. Wirth (1975) in his revision of old World Ephydra gave information on the identity, biology and distribution of Ephydra (E.) flavipes .

Al-Ahmadi, A. Z. & Salem, M. M. (1999) Entomofauna of Saudi Arabia, Part 1: Checklist of Insects. Academic Publishing & Press, King Saud University, Riyadh, 240 pp.

Al-Houty, W. (1989) Insect Fauna of Kuwait. Fahad Al-Marzouk, Printing & Publishing Establishment, Kuwait, 189 pp.

Dawah, H. A. & Abdullah, M. A. (2006) The Ephydridae (Diptera: Brachycera: Muscomorpha) of south-western Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Arabia, 21, 383 - 394.

El-Hawagry, M. S., Al Dhafer, H. M. & Abdel-Dayem, M. S. (2019) On the fly fauna of the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: new country records from Riyadh Region, with a list of associated fly species and zoogeographical remarks (Insecta: Diptera). Journal of Natural History, 53 (1 - 2), 17 - 43. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2019.1568601

Ferrar, P. (1987) A guide to the breeding habits and immature stages of Diptera Cyclorrhapha. Entomonograph 8. Part 1 & 2. E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press, Leiden and Copenhagen, 478 pp. [Lyneborg, L. (Ed.)]

Gatt, P. & Ebejer, M. J. (2003) The Ephydridae (Diptera: Brachycera, Muscomorpha) of the Maltese Islands. Studia Dipterologica, 10, 199 - 214.

Loew, H. (1856) Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Virter Beitrag, E. S. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 57 pp.

Macquart, M. J. (1843) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences, de I' Agriculture et des Arts a Lille, 1842, 162 - 460.

Mathis, W. N. (1978) New synonymy in Ephydridae (Diptera). Entomological News, 89 (2 - 3), 105 - 106.

Mathis, W. N. & Zatwarnicki, T. (1995) A world catalog of the shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae). Memoirs on Entomology, International. Vol. 4. Associated Publishers, Grainesville, Florida, 423 pp.

Mathis, W. N., Zatwarnicki, T., Stuke, J. H. & Deeming, J. C. (2017) A conspectus on shore-flies from the United Arab Emirates. In: van Harten, A. (Ed.), Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates. Vol. 6. Dar Al-Ummah Printing, Publishing, Distribution & Advertising, Abu Dhabi, pp. 636 - 61. [754 pp.]

Nasr, S. A., Isa, A. L., Kira, T. & Al-Tantawy, A. M. (1970) Effect of the blood worms (Chironomus sp.) and the rice fly (Ephydra macellaria Egger) on rice (Diptera: Chironomidae and Ephydridae). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Egypt, 54, 203 - 211.

Steyskal, G. C. (1968) Notes and descriptions of Egyptian acalyptrate Diptera (Ephydridae, Milichiidae, Otitidae). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Egypt, 50 (1966), 109 - 125.

Walker, D. H. & Pittaway, A. R. (1987) Insects of Eastern Arabia. Textbook, published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd., New York, 175 pp.

Wirth, W. W. (1975) A revision of the brine flies of the genus Ephydra of the Old World (Diptera: Ephydridae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 6, 11 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631275 X 00325

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Ephydrinae

Tribe

Ephydrini

Genus

Ephydra