Philygria posticata ( Meigen, 1830 )

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 : 429

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scientific name

Philygria posticata ( Meigen, 1830 )
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Philygria posticata ( Meigen, 1830) View in CoL

( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 34–35 )

Ephydra posticata Meigen, 1830: 124 View in CoL .

Philygria posticata: Schiner, 1864: 58 View in CoL [generic combination]; Hollmann-Schirrmacher, 1998: 108–110 [revision]; Mathis et al. 2017: 733 [ United Arab Emirates].

Hydrina posticata: Becker, 1926: 57 [generic combination].

Philygria vittipennis: Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 388 View in CoL [ Saudi Arabia, misidentification]

Specimens examined. 1 ♀, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre), swept from grasses, 14. iv. 2001, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) ; same data but 3. vi. 2001, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) ; 1 ♂, Tahama Tanoma ( Al-Bekra village ), swept from grasses, 20. i. 2003, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) .

Other Saudi Arabian records: Asir Region: Abha Farm Centre; Tahama Tanoma, al-Bekra village ( Dawah & Abdullah 2006).

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from Central Europe and also recorded from the Palaearctic Region: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russia (European Territory), Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Afrotropical Region: United Arab Emirates. There are some specimens of P. posticata in NMWC from Yemen.

Becker, T. (1926) 56 a Ephydridae und 56 b Canaceidae. In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region. Band VI. 1. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 1 - 115.

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

Hollmann-Schirrmacher, V. (1998) Phylogeny of the subfamily Ilytheinae (Diptera: Ephydridae) with special reference to the genus Philygria. Studia Dipterologica, Supplement 5, 1 - 144.

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.]

Meigen, J. W. (1830) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vol. 6. Schulz, Hamm, 6, xi + 401 pp.

Schiner, J. R. (1864) Catalogus systematicus Dipterorum Europae. impensis Societatis zoologico-botanicae editus, Vindobonae, 115 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 39977

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FIGURES 34–35. Habitus, lateral view. 34. Pelina similis L. Papp, 1974, male. 35. Philygria posticata (Meigen, 1830), male (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Ilytheinae

Tribe

Hyadinini

Genus

Philygria