Cryptophleps buttikeri Grichanov, 2015

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 : 1439

Cryptophleps buttikeri Grichanov, 2015

( Figure 3C )

Specimens examined

1♀, Jazan, Abu Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village , 20 .v .2013, sweeping, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution

The species was described from Saudi Arabia (Bahrah, a town in Makka province, in western Saudi Arabia located between Mekka and Jeddah) and this is the second locality of that species in Saudi Arabia and the habitat and altitude are the same as where the species was first found and described.

Figures

Figure 3. Dolichopodid species habitus: a – Asyndetus albifrons Parent; b – Chrysotus suavis Loew; c – Cryptophleps buttikeri Grichanov; d – Diaphorus hoffmannseggi Meigen.