The family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula: identification key, an updated list of species and new records from Saudi Arabia
Author
Dawah, Hassan A.
Author
Ahmad, Syed Kamran
Author
Abdullah, Mohammed A.
Author
Grichanov, Igor Ya.
text
Journal of Natural History
2020
2020-11-06
54
21 - 22
1425
1454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1800118
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2020.1800118
1464-5262
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Argyrochlamys cavicola
(Parent, 1929)
(
Figure 4A
)
Specimens examined
1♂
,
Jazan
,
Um Al-Raq Island
,
25
.xi
.2015, sweeping, H.A. Dawah (CERS).
Distribution
This is the first record from
Saudi Arabia
. The species was described from
Sudan
(Mersa Halaib) and further recorded from
Djibouti
and
Oman
(
Grichanov 2018
, p. 27).
Remarks.
This species is commonly found in burrows of the littoral turret-building crab
Ocypode
Weber
(M.J. Ebejer, NMWC; personal communication).