Mosillus beckeri ( Cresson, 1925 )

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 : 424

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

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scientific name

Mosillus beckeri ( Cresson, 1925 )
status

 

Mosillus beckeri ( Cresson, 1925) View in CoL

( Fig. 27–28 View FIGURES 26–27 View FIGURES 28–29 )

Gymnopa beckeri Cresson, 1925: 231 View in CoL .

Mosillus beckeri: Wirth 1964b: 1 View in CoL [generic combination]; Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 391 [ Saudi Arabia].

Specimens examined. 1 ♀, Asir, Maraba , 6–27. viii. 2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah and M.A. Abdullah ( CERS) ; 1 ♀, same data but, 1–31. v. 2004 ( NMWC) .

Other Saudi Arabian records: Asir Region: Maraba: 60 km S of Abha ( Dawah & Abdullah 2006)

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah (2006). It was described from Sudan (Senaar) and recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Niger, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. There are some specimens in NMWC collected from Kenya, Nigeria and Yemen.

Biology: Unknown.

Cresson, E. T. (1925) Studies in the dipterous family Ephydridae, excluding the North and South American faunas. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 51, 227 - 258.

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

Wirth, W. W. (1964 b) A new species and new records of African Ephydridae (Dipt.). Ergebnisse der Forschungsreise Lindner 1958 / 59. Nr. 18. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, 133, 1 - 3.

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FIGURES 26–27. Habitus, lateral view. 26. Chlorichaeta orba Mathis and Zatwarnicki, 1993. 27. Mosillus beckeri (Cresson, 1925), female (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

Gallery Image

FIGURES 28–29. Habitus, lateral view. 28. Mosillus beckeri (Cresson, 1925), male. 28. Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912 (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Gymnomyzinae

Tribe

Gymnomyzini

Genus

Mosillus