A conspectus of the silver-flies (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae) of the Middle East with descriptions of new species of Chamaemyia Meigen and Melanochthiphila Frey, from the Arabian Peninsula
Author
Ebejer, M. J.
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-13
4319
3
461
482
journal article
32116
10.11646/zootaxa.4319.3.3
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Leucopis glyphinivora
Rondani, 1875
Saudi Arabia
:
1♂
4♀
,
Asir
,
Abha
,
Madinat Ameer Sultan
, 18°17ʹN 42°37ʹE,
19.vi–9.vii.2013
,
Malaise trap
, HAD (
NMWC
)
;
2♂
2♀
, same data (
CERS-JU
)
;
1♂
,
Jazan
,
Fifa
,
Altatweer Centre
, 17°17ʹN 43°08ʹE,
16.xii.2015
–
6.i.2016
,
Malaise trap
, HAD (CERS-JU).
Yemen
:
1♂
,
Ta’Izz
,
3–24.i.1999
,
light trap
,
A. van Harten
(
NMWC
)
. Iran: unpublished personal observations MJE and personal communication S. Gaimari (USA).
It is somewhat surprising to find so few specimens among the material available for study from Saudi Arabia, even though it was collected so far south, falling within the Afrotropical Region.
Taxonomic note: In a recent study (
Raspi & Benelli 2016
), the type of
Leucopis talaria
Rondani, 1875
, a female, was compared to males and females of
L. glyphinivora
reared from Tuscany, Italy and shown to be very similar. Their figures of the male postabdomen of this series are very similar to Tanasijtshuk’s figures of male
L. glyphinivora
. However, female
Leucopis
are poorly studied and it remains difficult to separate reliably species on female characters. For this reason, I retain the name
L. glyphinivora
.
Distribution.
widespread throughout most of the Palaearctic
Region
from Europe to
China
.