Zeros invenatus ( Lamb, 1912 )

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 : 431-432

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191433

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scientific name

Zeros invenatus ( Lamb, 1912 )
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Zeros invenatus ( Lamb, 1912) View in CoL

( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 38–39 )

Ilythea invenata Lamb, 1912: 322 .

Zeros invenatus: Cresson 1943b: 12 View in CoL [generic combination, review]; Mathis & Zatwarnicki 2003: 638 [review]; Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 388 [ Saudi Arabia]; Mathis et al. 2017: 735 [ United Arab Emirates].

Specimens examined. 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm , 1–17. vi. 2003, Malaise trap, H. A. Dawah ( 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 Seychelles ( Mahé) and also recorded from the following areas: Afrotropical Region: Madagascar,

Seychelles and Sierra Leone; Palaearctic Region: Mallorca; Australasian Region: Australia (New South Wales) and New Guinea ( Papua New Guinea); Polynesia (Society Islands) and Samoa. Oriental Region: India (Assam), Malaysia and Thailand. There are some specimens of this species in NMWC from the Cape Verde Islands, Jordan, Nigeria and the Seychelles.

Biology. Unknown. Mathis & Zatwarnicki (2003) reported that Z. invenatus was found in the same habitats as Z. fractivirgatus (Lamb) and collected by sweeping (a) emergent vegetation in freshwater habitats at lower elevations, (b) carefully through a small patch of water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms ) and (c) through lawn grass in a seepage area.

Cresson, E. T. (1943 b) The species of the tribe Ilytheini (Diptera: Ephydridae: Notiphilinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 69, 1 - 16.

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

Lamb, C. G. (1912) The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Vol. 4. No. XlX. Diptera: Lonchaeidae, Sapromyzidae, Ephydridae, Chloropidae, Agromyzidae. Transactions of Linnean Society, London, 2 (Zoology), 15, 303 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1912. tb 00104. x

Mathis, W. N. & Zatwarnicki, T. (2003) Shore flies of the Republic of Seychelles (Diptera: Ephydridae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa, 53 (4), 585 - 650.

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.]

Gallery Image

FIGURES 38–39. Habitus, lateral view. 38. Zeros intermedius Cresson, 1943, male. 39. Zeros invenatus (Lamb, 1912) (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

Tribe

Ilytheini

Genus

Zeros