Tachytrechus planitarsis Becker, 1907

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2020, The family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula: identification key, an updated list of species and new records from Saudi Arabia, Journal of Natural History 54 (21 - 22), pp. 1425-1454 : 1441

Tachytrechus planitarsis Becker, 1907

Distribution

This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Grichanov (1997, 1998); El- Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Algeria (Biskra) and was further recorded from the Palaearctic region ( Egypt, Iran, Israel, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkmenistan) and the Afrotropics ( Ethiopia) ( Grichanov 2017a).

Remarks. This species is halophilic (belonging to organisms that thrive in high salt concentrations) in nature ( Grichanov 2016; Grichanov et al. 2017).