Coenosia cuthbertsoni Curran, 1935

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species, Zootaxa 4869 (1), pp. 1-54 : 42

Coenosia cuthbertsoni Curran, 1935 ( Fig. 69 )

Coenosia cuthbertsoni Curran, 1935: 7 . Later transferred into Caricea Robineau-Desvoidy , now synonymized with Coenosia Meigen.

Specimens examined. 1m, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre), 20.iv.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 1m, Keratha, Al-Etherbany Fruit Farm , 7–28.viii.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution. New to Saudi Arabia. It was described from Zimbabwe (as “ Rhodesia ”). van Emden (1948) recorded this species from Yemen.

Figures

FIGURE. 67–70. Muscidae species habitus: 67) Coenosia attenuata Stein in Becker, 1903, Male; 68) Coenosia aurifacies Emden, 1940, Male; 69) Coenosia cuthbertsoni Curran, 1935, Male; 70) Coenosia humilis Meigen, 1826, Male.