Hydrellia maura Meigen, 1838

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 : 417

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191342

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scientific name

Hydrellia maura Meigen, 1838
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Hydrellia maura Meigen, 1838 View in CoL

Hydrellia maura Meigen, 1838: 374 View in CoL : Hering 1950: 238 [host plant: Potamogeton perfoliatus View in CoL L. ( Potamogetonaceae View in CoL )]; Deeming 2002: 55 [review].

Hydrellia modesta Loew 1860: 23 View in CoL : Brocher 1910: 170–176 [immature stages]; Séguy 1934: 430 [synonymy].

Hydropota modesta: Coe 1945: 396 [generic combination].

Hydrellia griseola variety modesta: Cresson 1932: 6 View in CoL [revised status].

Hydrellia incana View in CoL form modesta: Nye 1958: 441–443 [larva; host plants].

Specimens examined. 1 ♂, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre), 1–25. v. 2013, Malaise trap. H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 1 ♂, same data but 23. viii.–13. x. 2013 .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia and Arabian Peninsula. This species was described from Germany (Baiern) and further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: South Africa; Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Czechia, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Madeira Islands, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Madeira Islands, Sweden, Switzerland.

Brocher, F. (1910) Observations biologiques sur quelques Dipteres et Hymenopteres dits aquatiques . Annales de Biologie lacustre, 4, 170 - 186.

Coe, R. L. (1945) 56. Ephydridae. In: Kloet, G. S. & Hincks, W. D. (Eds.), A Check List of British Insects, London, 1945, pp. 395 - 397.

Cresson, E. T. (1932) Studies in the dipterous family Ephydridae, paper IV. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 58, 1 - 34.

Deeming, J. C. (2002) Some species of the genus Hydrellia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Ephydridae) in Africa and Arabia with special reference to species of economic importance. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 49, 47 - 59. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 20020490105

Hering, E. M. (1950) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Hydrellia (Diptera: Ephydridae). Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, 43, 234 - 240.

Loew, H. (1860) Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Dipteren. Siebenter Beitrag. Programm Konigligen Realschule zu Meseritz, 1860, 1 - 46.

Meigen, J. W. (1838) Systematische Beschreibungen der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. 7 (Supplementary Volume). Bei Friedrich Wilhelm Forstmann, Gedrukt bei Beaufort Sohn, Aachen, XII + 434 pp.

Nye, I. W. B. (1958) The external morphology of some of the Dipterous larvae living in the Graminae of Britain. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 110, 411 - 487. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1958. tb 00380. x

Seguy, E. (1934) Dipteres (Brachyceres) (Muscidae Acalypterae et Scatophagidae). Faune de France. Vol. 28. Lechevalier et fils, Paris, 832 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Hydrelliinae

Tribe

Hydrelliini

Genus

Hydrellia