Corythophora longipes Loew, 1862

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 : 412

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scientific name

Corythophora longipes Loew, 1862
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Corythophora longipes Loew, 1862

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Corythophora longipes Loew, 1862b: 13 : Cresson 1929: 181 [synonymy with Dryxo ornata (Macquart) View in CoL ]; Mathis & Zatwarnicki 2002: 13–16 [revision]. Dryxo longipes: Bezzi 1908: 187 [generic combination]. Karema loewella Cresson 1929: 182 View in CoL : Cogan 1968: 357 [revision]; 1980: 661 [Afrotropical catalog]; Mathis & Zatwarnicki 2002: 13 [synonymy].

Specimens examined. 1 ♀, Najran, Valley Dam , 17. ix. 2014, sweeping, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia and Arabian Peninsula. It was described from South Africa and further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Bezzi, M. (1908) Ditteri Eritrei raccolti dal Dot. Adrani e Prof. Tellini. Parte Seconda (1). Diptera Cyclorrhapha. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 39, 3 - 199.

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.

Loew, H. (1862 b) Bidrag till kannedomen om Afrikas Diptera. Ofversigt af Kongl Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlinger Stockholm, 19, 3 - 14.

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

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FIGURES 8–9. Habitus, lateral view. 8. Ptilomyia madeirensis Stuke, 2011, male. 9. Corythophora longipes Loew, 1862, female (Images: James Turner, NMWC).

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lyonetiidae

SubFamily

Hydrelliinae

Tribe

Dryxini

Genus

Corythophora