Paralimna (Paralimna) sponsa Giordani Soika, 1956

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 : 414

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5777723

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scientific name

Paralimna (Paralimna) sponsa Giordani Soika, 1956
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Paralimna (Paralimna) sponsa Giordani Soika, 1956 View in CoL

Paralimna sponsa Giordani Soika, 1956a: 492 View in CoL : Cogan 1968: 338–339 [revision]; Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 387 [ Saudi Arabia, as P. (P.) cf. sponsa Giordani Soika, 1956 View in CoL ].

Specimens examined. 1 ♂, Asir, Maraba , 1–31. v. 2004, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia and Arabian Peninsula. It was described from Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and further recorded from Angola and Uganda.

Remarks: The specimen examined runs to P. sponsa in Cogan’s 1968 key while the male fore femur has a line of distinct flattened, curved anteroventral setae that occupy half its length and the male external claspers resemble those of P. ustulata Wirth as figured (p. 320, fig. 60) by Cogan (1968).

Cogan, B. H. (1968) A revision of the Ethiopian species of the tribe Notiphiline (Diptera: Ephydridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 21 (6) 279 - 365.

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

Giordani Soika, A. G. (1956 a) Contributions a l'etude de la fauna entomologique du Ruanda-Urundi (Mission P. Basilewsky 1953) CVII Diptera Ephydridae. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgique, Series 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 51, 490 - 505.

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Hydrelliinae

Tribe

Dryxini

Genus

Paralimna

SubGenus

Paralimna