Meoneura nitidiuscula Collin, 1949

Papp, L., 2013, New Species And Records Of Meoneura Rondani, 1856 From The Old World Tropics (Diptera, Carnidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 59 (3), pp. 213-227 : 225

Meoneura nitidiuscula Collin, 1949

Material examined: 4 males 12 females ( HNHM): Africa or., Katona [= Kálmán Kittenberger] – Assab, 907. V-VI. In 1907 the Hungarian zoologist, Kálmán Kittenberger collected birds’ eggs and other zoological items on the sea shore of Erithrea; Assab meant more the area than the city Assab, or Aseb ( Fekete 1962). He pinned the minute flies on the spot, which – being acalyptrates – were not destroyed in the HNHM in 1956 and were identified only in the course of this project. The species was described from the Sahara (Siwa Oasis, Egypt) and known from Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and from the Cape Verde Is. ( Barraclough 1994, Brake 2009). The above record from Eritrea fits well to the formerly known occurrence data.