Atissa pygmaea ( Haliday, 1833 )

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 : 410-411

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

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scientific name

Atissa pygmaea ( Haliday, 1833 )
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Atissa pygmaea ( Haliday, 1833) View in CoL

( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 6–7 )

Ephydra pygmaea Haliday, 1833: 174 View in CoL . Hydrellia (Atissa) pygmaea: Haliday 1839: 404 [generic combination].

Atissa pygmaea: Haliday in Walker 1856: 345 View in CoL [generic combination]; Mathis et al. 2017: 671 [ United Arab Emirates].

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

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from North Ireland ( United Kingdom) and is further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone, United Arab Emirates; and the Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Azores, Canary Islands, Europe (widespread), Japan (Honshu), Morocco, Syria and Tunisia.

Haliday, A. H. (1833) Catalogue of Diptera occurring about Holywood in Downshire. The Entomologist Magazine, 1 (2), 147 - 180.

Haliday, A. H. (1839) Remarks on the generic distribution of the British Hydromyzidae. Annals of Natural History, 3, 217 - 224 + 401 - 411. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745483909443252

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.]

Walker, F. (1856) Insecta Britannica. Diptera. Vol. 3. John Edward Taylor, London, XXIV + 352 pp.

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FIGURES 6–7. Habitus, lateral view. 6. Psilopa nilotica (Becker, 1903). 7. Atissa pygmaea Haliday, 1833 (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

SubFamily

Hydrelliinae

Tribe

Atissini

Genus

Atissa