Allotrichoma biroi Cresson, 1929

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 : 425

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191397

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scientific name

Allotrichoma biroi Cresson, 1929
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Allotrichoma biroi Cresson, 1929 View in CoL

Notiphila rufitarsis Macquart, 1851: 302 View in CoL [Preoccupied in Notiphila View in CoL by Waltl, 1837: 281]: El-Hawagry et al. 2018b: 223 View Cited Treatment [synonymy].

Allotrichoma biroi Cresson, 1929: 174 View in CoL : Krivosheina & Zatwarnicki 1997: 297–299 [revision]; Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 390 [ Saudia Arabia].

Allotrichoma (Allotrichoma) ralloi Canzoneri 1987: 87 View in CoL : Krivosheina & Zatwarnicki 1997: 297 [synonymy].

Allotrichoma abiatense Canzoneri 1988: 3 View in CoL : Krivosheina & Zatwarnicki 1997: 297 [synonymy].

Specimens examined. 5 ♂, 1 ♀, Asir, Maraba , 1–31. v. 2004, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah & M.A. Abdullah ( NMWC; CERS) .

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). The species was described from Sudan and also recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Ethiopia, Oman, Sudan and United Arab Emirates; Palaearctic Region: Egypt, Israel and Oriental Region: China ( Hong Kong), India, Laos, Philippines. There are specimens of A. biroi in NMWC collected from Northern Nigeria (Lake Chad and Bauchi) and Oman.

Biology. In Oman this species was found on stranded and dying vegetation especially around drying waterways and on debris at the water’s edge on Lake Chad (Dr. J.C. Deeming; pers. comm.).

Canzoneri, S. (1987) Sugli Ephydridae e Canacidae del Sudan (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha). Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Venezia, 37 (1986), 79 - 97.

Canzoneri, S. (1988) Una nuova specie di Allotrichoma dell'Etiopia (Diptera, Ephydridae). Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali, Lavori, 13, 3 - 4.

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., Zatwarnicki, T. & Ebrahim, A. M. (2018 b) Catalogue of the Egyptian Ephydroidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae). Zootaxa, 4444 (3), 201 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4444.3.1

Krivosheina, M. & Zatwarnicki, T. (1997) Some notes on the Old world Allotrichoma (Diptera: Ephydridae) with description of three new species. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 66, 391 - 310.

Macquart, M. J. (1851) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4 e supplement publie dansles memoires de 1849 (concl.). Memoires de la Societe royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille, 1850, 134 - 294.

Waltl, J. (1837) Neue Gattungen von Mucken bey Passau, Isis, Oken, 4, 279 - 283.

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Gymnomyzinae

Tribe

Hecamedini

Genus

Allotrichoma