Paragus (Serratoparagus) azureus Hull, 1949 ( ssp. scrupeus Stuckenberg, 1954a: 406

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4855 (1), pp. 1-69 : 42-44

Paragus (Serratoparagus) azureus Hull, 1949 ( ssp. scrupeus Stuckenberg, 1954a: 406 )

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Paragus azureus Hull, 1949: 729

Paragus (Paragus) azurea Stuckenberg, 1954b: 406 . (Misspelling).

Examined specimens. 1♀, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Mohammed Bakreen Farm , 28.i.1983, K.Guichard ( KSMA) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded for Saudi Arabia by Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993). It was described from Socotra and is further recorded from Aden, Armenia, Egypt, Israel, Zimbabwe ( Rhodesia) and Mozambique and Turkey (as P. azureus ssp. scrupens Stuckenberg ), UAE and eastern parts of the Afrotropical region ( Smith & Vockeroth 1980; Peck 1988; Dirickx 1994; Whittington 2003; Speight 2020; Smit et al. 2017).

Remarks. This species was described as, Paragus azureus Hull, 1949 . Stuckenberg (1954a) established the subgenus Pandasyopthalmu s in addition to the subgenus Paragus Latreille. Smith & Vockeroth (1980) listed it under P. (Paragus) azureus . After Vujić et al. (2008) established the two subgenera Serratoparagus and Afroparagus , P. (Paragus) azureus was therefore put under P. (Serratoparagus) azureus .

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FIGURE 47. Habitus of Paragus (Serratoparagus) azureus Hull, 1949; spp. scrupeus Stuckenberg, 1954a. Male, dorsal view.