Eremotrichoma perspiciendum ( Becker, 1903 )

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 : 426

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scientific name

Eremotrichoma perspiciendum ( Becker, 1903 )
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Eremotrichoma perspiciendum ( Becker, 1903) View in CoL

Elephantinosoma perspiciendum Becker, 1903: 180 View in CoL .

Allotrichoma perspiciendum: Cresson, 1929: 176 [generic combination]: Collin, 1949: 203–205 [discussion]; Mathis, 1986: 132–133 [revision].

Eremotrichoma perspiciendum: Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 1995: 157 View in CoL [generic combination]; Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 389–390 [ Saudi Arabia]; Mathis et al. 2017: 715–717 [ United Arab Emirates]; El-Hawagry et al. 2019: 33 [ Saudi Arabia].

Specimens examined. 13 ♂, 4 ♀, Jazan, Water treatment, 7. ix. 2014, sweeping mangrove, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 1 ♂, Jazan, Abu Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village , 4. iii. 2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 2 ♂, Asir, Maraba , 1–31. v. 2004, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) .

Other Saudi Arabian records: Asir Region: Maraba: 60 km S of Abha ( Dawah & Abdullah 2006) ; Riyadh Region: Rawdhat Khorim National Park ( El-Hawagry et al. 2019) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah (2006) and El- Hawagry et al. (2019). The species was described from Egypt (Elephant Island on the river Nile; hence the name of the genus) and further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Sudan and United Arab Emirates; Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. There are some specimens of E. perspiciendum in NMWC collected from Niger, Nigeria, Oman and Yemen.

Remarks. E. perspiciendum is quite distinct from E. chnumi Becker, 1903 , the type species of the genus, described in the same paper but was transferred to the genus Allotrichoma Becker, 1896 and later became the species upon which the subgenus Eremotrichoma Giordani Soika, 1956 was established. Through misidentification of E. perspiciendum by Cresson and others, the situation became very complicated but was clarified by Mathis & Deeming (1987).

Becker, T. (1896) Dipterologische Studien IV. Ephydridae. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 41, 91 - 276. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 48018960505

Becker, T. (1903) Aegyptische Dipteren Gesammelt und Beschrieben (Fortsetzung und Schluss). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 2 (1), 67 - 195.

Collin, J. E. (1949) Results of the Armstrong College Expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan Desert), 1935, under the leadership of Prof. J. Omer-Cooper. Diptera Empididae, Dolichopodidae, Aschiza and Acalypterae. Bulletin de la Societe Foudad I-er d'Entomologie, 33, 175 - 225.

Cresson, E. T. (1929) Studies in the dipterous family Ephydridae. Paper II. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 55, 165 - 195.

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

El-Hawagry, M. S., Al Dhafer, H. M. & Abdel-Dayem, M. S. (2019) On the fly fauna of the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: new country records from Riyadh Region, with a list of associated fly species and zoogeographical remarks (Insecta: Diptera). Journal of Natural History, 53 (1 - 2), 17 - 43. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2019.1568601

Mathis, W. N. & Deeming, J. C. (1987) A revision of the shore fly genus Elephantinosoma Becker (Diptera: Ephydridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 89 (3), 562 - 570.

Mathis, W. N. & Zatwarnicki, T. (1995) A world catalog of the shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae). Memoirs on Entomology, International. Vol. 4. Associated Publishers, Grainesville, Florida, 423 pp.

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.]

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Gymnomyzinae

Tribe

Hecamedini

Genus

Eremotrichoma