Atylotus agrestis ( Wiedemann), 1828

Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Fadl, Hassan H. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2019, Review of the horse flies of the genus Atylotus Osten Sacken, 1876 (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Egypt, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4551 (1), pp. 79-86 : 81-82

Atylotus agrestis ( Wiedemann), 1828

(Figs 5, 10, 12)

Tabanus agrestis Wiedemann, 1828: 557 .

Tabanus albicans Macquart, 1834: 204 .

Tabanus ditoeniatus Macquart, 1838: 126 .

Tabanus pyrrhus Walker, 1850: 47 .

Tabanus infans Walker, 1850: 50 .

Tabanus ditaeniatus Walker, 1854: 236 .

Tabanus bipunctatus van der Wulp, 1885: 72 .

Tabanus nigromaculatus Ricardo, 1900: 165 .

Tabanus adjacens Ricardo, 1911: 248 .

Tabanus lacustris Ghidini, 1938: 343 .

Tabanus ghidini Pechuman, 1949: 84 .

Type locality. Egypt .

Diagnosis. Length. (male) body 10.8–14.5 mm, wing 8.45–10.3 mm; (female) body 11.3–13.4 mm, wing 9.7– 10.2 mm.

Frons in females greyish tomented, parallel sided, frontal index in female 2.66–2.69; eyes bare; post-occipital rim narrow and short in male; wing veins pale yellow, R 4 with short appendix; abdomen whitish grey with 4 greyish brown longitudinal spots, the two median longitudinal spots forming a broad median longitudinal dark brown stripe.

Local distribution: Coastal strip, Upper Nile, Lower Nile, Western Desert.

Geographical distribution. China, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, widespread through Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions.

Specimens examined. Sentris, 19.II.1951 (1 ♀); Kerdasa , 16.III.1952 (1 ♀); Kom Osheim , 9.V.1954 (1 ♀); Mansourah , 15.X.1956 (1 ♀); Khor Galal , 19.IX.1997 (1 ♀); Kafer El-Sheikh , 10.VI .1993 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum , 25.X.1994; El-Fayoum , III.2008 (1 ♂); Alexandria, Abeis , 1.VIII.2008 (1 ♂); El-Khanka , 15 . VIII.2 0 0 9 (1 ♀); Bahariya Oasis , VII.2012 (2 ♂); Tanta , 28.VIII.–1.IX.2012. (2♀, 3♂) ( ASUC); El-Marg , 25.V.1921 (1 ♂); Fayed , 24.IX.1925 (1 ♂); Gabel-Asfer , 27.X.1925 (1 ♀); Mirsa Matrouh , III. 1930 (1 ♀); Helwan , 28.III.1939 (2 ♂, 1 ♀); 30.V.1945 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum , 5.VIII.1946 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum , 15.VIII.1946 (4 ♂, 6 ♀); El-Fayoum , 1.III.1947 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum , 12.VI .1948 (3 ♀) (CUC); Gabal-Asfer , 15.I.1925 (1 ♀); Faraskure , 12.VI .1925 (1 ♂); Wadi Abu El-Nesour , 23.X.1925 (1 ♀); Kharga Oasis , 12.VI .1926 (3 ♀); Kharga Oasis , 20.IX.1926 (2 ♀) ( ESEC); Meadi , 11.V.1913 (1 ♀); Upper Egypt train , 24.IX.1914 (1 ♀); Meadi , 20.VII.1915 (1 ♀); Cairo , 4.VI .1917 (1 ♀); Alexandria, Nouzha , 15.VII.1920 (1 male); Ezbet El-Nakhl , 11.V.1921 (1 ♀); El-Marg , 25.V.1921 (2 ♂, 1 ♀); Nouzha , 26.VI .1921 (2 ♀); Nouzha , 5.VII.1921 (4 ♂ (1 “cotype” of Atylotus agrestis ), 5 ♀); Nouzha , 18.VII. 1921 (1 ♂, 1 ♀); Cleopatra , 14.VIII.1921 (1 ♀); Mobar Bez , 3.IX.1921 (1 ♂); Ezbet El-Nahkl , 20.IV.1924 (1 ♂, 3 ♀); Ezbet El-Nahkl , 25.IV.1924 (2 ♂); Faraskure , 7.VII.1926 (1 ♂); Baharyia Oasis , 1.VI .1927 (1 ♀); Meadi , 11.VI .1931 (1 ♂), Meadi , 5.IX.1931 (1 ♂); El-Fayoum, Kom Osheim , 2.V.1965 (2 ♀) ( PPDD) .

Remarks. Müller et al. (2012) mentioned this species as a record for the Sinai Peninsula.