Paralimna (Phaiosterna) bicolor ( Macquart, 1851 ), 1975

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 : 414-415

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scientific name

Paralimna (Phaiosterna) bicolor ( Macquart, 1851 )
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Paralimna (Phaiosterna) bicolor ( Macquart, 1851) View in CoL

Ephydra bicolor Macquart, 1851: 303 View in CoL

Paralimna bicolor: Wirth 1975: 40–41 View in CoL [generic combination]; Mathis et al. 2017: 685–686 [ Oman, United Arab Emiates].

Paralimna (Phaiosterna) lineata View in CoL in part of authors, not de Meijere [misidentification].

Paralimna (Phaiosterna) vidua Giordani Soika 1956b: 124 View in CoL : Cogan 1968: 325 [synonymy with P. aequalis Cresson View in CoL ]; 1980: 663 [synonymy with P. lineata de Meijere View in CoL ]; Mathis & Zatwarnicki 2002: 69–72 [synonymy].

Specimens examined. Numerous ♂, ♀, Jazan, Water Treatment , 10. xi. 2015, sweeping, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but 19. xi. 2015 ( CERS) ; 1 ♂, Jazan, Harob, Wadi Lajeb , 30. xii. 2015 ( CERS) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from Egypt and is further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Aldabra, Burundi, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and United Arab Emirates; Australasian Region: Papua New Guinea; Palaearctic Region: Egypt and Jordan.

Remark. Until recently both Paralimna bicolor and P. lineata have been reported under the name P. aequalis Cresson, 1929 .

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.

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

Giordani Soika, A. G. (1956 b) Diagnosi preliminari di nuovi Ephydridae e Canaceidae della Regione Etiopica e del Madagascar (Diptera). Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Venezia, 9, 123 - 130.

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.

Mathis, W. N. & Zatwarnicki, T. (2002) A Phylogenetic Study of the Tribe Dryxini Zatwarnicki (Diptera: Ephydridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 617, i-iv + 1 - 101, 154 figs, 2 tabs. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.617

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.]

Wirth, W. W. (1975) A revision of the brine flies of the genus Ephydra of the Old World (Diptera: Ephydridae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 6, 11 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631275 X 00325

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Hydrelliinae

Tribe

Dryxini

Genus

Paralimna

SubGenus

Phaiosterna