Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) nilicola (Kieffer, 1925)

El-Hawagry, Magdi S., El-Azab, Salah El-Din A., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2020, Biting midges of Egypt (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 52357-52357 : 52357

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scientific name

Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) nilicola (Kieffer, 1925)
status

 

Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) nilicola (Kieffer, 1925)

Apelma nilicola Kieffer, 1925 [ Kieffer 1925c: 253]. Type locality: Egypt (Maadi).

Distribution

PA: Egypt.

Local distribution in Egypt: Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Maadi. Upper Nile Valley: Sohag (El-Shewash).

Dates of collection in Egypt: September and October.

Notes

Alwin-Kownacka et al. (2016) treated this species as a nomen dubium because it is poorly described and types most probably not preserved.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Forcipomyia