Allotrichoma argentipraetextum 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 : 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.5191393

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scientific name

Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912
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Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912

( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 28–29 )

Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912: 324 .

Allotrichoma outambense Canzoneri 1986: 72 View in CoL : Mathis & Zatwarnicki 2003: 620 [synonymy].

Specimens examined. 1 ♂?, Jazan, Harob, Wadi Lajeb , sweeping, 30. xii. 2015, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 1 ♂?, Jazan, Harob, Wadi Al-Razan , sweeping, 30. xii. 2015, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia and Arabian Peninsula. This species was described from the Seychelles island of Mahé and further recorded from Sierra Leone.

Remarks. We could not determine the sex of this specimen without macerating it, which would destroy the patterning.

Canzoneri, S. (1986) Nuovi dati sugli Ephydridae (Diptera) della Sierra Leone, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, Sezione: Missioni ed Esplorazioni, X, 260, 67 - 75.

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.

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FIGURES 28–29. Habitus, lateral view. 28. Mosillus beckeri (Cresson, 1925), male. 28. Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912 (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Gymnomyzinae

Tribe

Hecamedini

Genus

Allotrichoma