Thecophora atra (Fabricius, 1775)

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

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scientific name

Thecophora atra (Fabricius, 1775)
status

 

Thecophora atra (Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL View at ENA

Myopa atra Fabricius, 1775: 799. Type locality: Denmark (Copenhagen).

Myopa annulata Fabricius, 1794: 399. Type locality: Italy.

Myopa maculata Meigen, 1804: 287. Type locality: France.

Myopa micans Meigen, 1804: 288. Type locality: France.

Myopa femorata Fabricius, 1805: 181. Type locality: Germany.

Occemya fulvifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 134. Type locality: France.

Occemya meigeni Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 135. Type locality: France.

Occemya grisea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 137. Type locality: France.

Occemya lamarckii Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 140. Type locality: France.

Occemya guerini Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 141. Type locality: France.

Occemya bigoti Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 142. Type locality: France.

Occemya brunipes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 143. Type locality: France.

Occemya lucasi Robineau-Desvoidy, 1853: 144. Type locality: France.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Efflatoun; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569366; scientificName: Thecophora atra; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Ezbet El-Nakhl ; decimalLatitude: 32.1111; decimalLongitude: 32.1625; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 04-25-1924; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Efflatoun; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569366; scientificName: Thecophora atra; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Hawamdia ; decimalLatitude: 29.9092; decimalLongitude: 31.2615; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: August.1925; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Farag; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569366; scientificName: Thecophora atra; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Helwan ; decimalLatitude: 29.8500; decimalLongitude: 31.3333; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 12-11-1934; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: El-Hawagry; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1569366; scientificName: Thecophora atra; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al-Aqiq ; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 4-20-2011; Record Level: institutionCode: MSHC

Distribution

AF: Saudi Arabia [as "South-western part"] (first record). OR: India, Sri Lanka. PA: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine.

Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 10 View Figure 10 ): EGYPT: Coastal Strip: Mariout (April and May); Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Ezbet El-Nakhl, Hawamdia, Helwan, Kafr Hakim, Mazghouna (March to December) [Sources: Azmy et al. 2016 and museum material in EFC and ESEC]. SAUDI ARABIA: Al-Baha: Al-Aqiq (April) [Source: collected material].

Notes

This species (Fig. 12 b) is recorded herein for the first time from Saudi Arabia and this is the first record in the Afrotropical Region considering the south-western part of Saudi Arabia to be affiliated with the Afrotropical Region.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Conopidae

Genus

Thecophora

Loc

Thecophora atra (Fabricius, 1775)

El-Hawagry, Magdi, Soliman, Ahmed Mostafa & Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed 2021
2021
Loc

Occemya meigeni

Robineau-Desvoidy 1853
1853
Loc

Myopa femorata

Fabricius 1805
1805
Loc

Myopa micans

Meigen 1804
1804
Loc

Myopa annulata

Fabricius 1794
1794
Loc

Myopa atra

Fabricius 1775
1775