Diasemocera aenigma ( Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2017 )

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 : 408

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

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scientific name

Diasemocera aenigma ( Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2017 )
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Diasemocera aenigma ( Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2017) View in CoL

( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 4–5 )

Psilopa aenigma Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2017: 653 View in CoL .

Diasemocera aenigma: Zatwarnicki, 2018: 536 View in CoL [generic combination].

Specimens examined. 1 ♀, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre), 3–24. vii. 2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described and known only from United Arab Emirates.

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.]

Zatwarnicki, T. (2018) Solving the puzzle of taxonomic position of the petroleum fly by resurrection of Diasemocera Bezzi from Psilopa Fallen (Diptera: Ephydridae) with proposed specific and generic synonymies. Annales Zoologici, 68 (3), 527 - 552. https: // doi. org / 10.3161 / 00034541 ANZ 2018.68.3.012

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FIGURES 4–5. Habitus, lateral view. 4. Ceropsilopa longicornis (Lamb, 1912). 5. Diasemocera aenigma (Mathis and Zatwarnicki, 2017), female (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Discomyzinae

Tribe

Psilopini

Genus

Diasemocera