Physocephala vittata (Fabricius, 1794)

El-Hawagry, Magdi, Soliman, Ahmed Mostafa & Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, 2021, The family Conopidae (Diptera) in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60287-60287 : 60287

Physocephala vittata (Fabricius, 1794)

Conops vittata Fabricius, 1794: 392. Type locality: Germany (Kiel).

Conops dorsalis Wiedemann in Meigen, 1824: 133. Type locality: Austria.

Conops solaeformis Gimmerthal, 1842: 672. Type locality: Latvia.

Conops semiatrata Costa, 1844: 89. Type locality: Italy.

Conops fraternus Loew, 1847: 18. Type locality: Turkey, Greece, Croatia & Italy.

Conops truncata Loew, 1847: 21. Type locality: Italy (Sicily).

Physocephala detecta Becker, 1913: 615. Type locality: Iran.

Physocephala vittata var. abdominalis Kröber, 1915: 57. Type locality: Turkey, Syria & Cyprus.

Physocephala vittata var. semirufa Kröber, 1915: 58. Type locality: Israel.

Physocephala truncata var. maculigera Kröber, 1915: 71. Type locality: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria & Syria.

Physocephala vittata var. immaculata Kröber, 1939: 365. Type locality: Cyprus.

Distribution

AF: Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen. PA: Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestinian Territories, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 7 ): EGYPT: Coastal Strip: El-Burg, Mariout (May); Sinai: locality and date unknown; Upper Nile Valley: locality and date unknown [Sources: Kröber (1915a), Kröber (1927), Azmy (2016)].

Figures

Figure 7. Local distribution map of Physocephala variegata (Meigen) and Physocephala vittata (Fabricius) in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.