Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera ( Cresson, 1939 )

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 : 421

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EF990EE4-6D69-41DE-A7ED-6C3B5141B106

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191373

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE8C3F-FFA1-FFA5-FF65-FA485095EEBE

treatment provided by

Plazi (2019-12-20 06:34:36, last updated 2024-11-25 23:10:21)

scientific name

Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera ( Cresson, 1939 )
status

 

Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera ( Cresson, 1939) View in CoL

Discocerina mera Cresson, 1939: 6 View in CoL .

Orasiopa mera: Zatwarnicki & Mathis 2001: 40 View in CoL [generic combination]; Mathis et al. 2017: 696 [ United Arab Emirates].

Specimens examined. 1 ♂, Jazan, Farasan Island (Under the Al-Saged Bridge), 22. v. 2014, sweeping on seaweed, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. This species was described from Thailand and further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Aldabra, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates; Australasian/Oceanian Region: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), Caroline Islands, Eniwetok Atoll, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Guam, Hawaiian Islands, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea ( Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago), Solomon Islands, Society Islands, Tahiti; Nearctic Region: Antilles, Bermuda, United States (Florida); Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago; Oriental Region: Malaya, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam; Palaearctic Region: Japan.

Cresson, E. T. (1939) Description of a new genus and ten new species of Ephydridae, with a discussion of the species of the genus Discomyza (Diptera). Notulae Natulae, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphi a, 21, 1 - 12.

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.]

Zatwarnicki, T. & Mathis, W. N. (2001) A Generic Classification of the tribe Discocerinini (Diptera: Ephydridae). Annales Zoologici, 51 (1), 5 - 51.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Gymnomyzinae

Tribe

Discocerinini

Genus

Orasiopa

SubGenus

Reymontopa