The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species
Author
Dawah, Hassan A.
Centre for Environmental Research and Studies, Jazan University, P. O. Box 2095, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Author
Abdullah, Mohammed A.
0000-0002-3323-3623
Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, PO Box 9004, Abha- 61413, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. mohd _ robiya @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3323 - 3623
mohd_robiya@hotmail.com
Author
Deeming, John C.
0000-0002-6703-8180
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences, Entomology Section, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, UK. john. deeming @ museumwales. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6703 - 8180
john.deeming@museumwales.ac.uk
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-30
4869
1
1
54
journal article
8861
10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1
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1175-5326
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Lispe subbivittata
Mou, 1992
Lispe bivittata
Stein, 1909: 262
auctt
.
Lispe subbivittata
Mou, 1992: 378
.
Distribution.
This species was previously recorded as
L. bivittata
from
Saudi Arabia
by
Pont (1991)
; Abu-Zoherah
et al
. (1993). It was described from
China
. In the Middle East it is recorded from
Egypt
,
Iran
, and
Yemen
(
Vikhrev 2014
).
Taxonomic remarks
.
Mou (1992: 378)
described the subspecies
L. bivittata subbivittata
based on the female sex only, separated from the nominate subspecies by the absence of a submedian anteroventral on the hind femur.
Vikhrev (2012a)
elevated
L. bivittata subbivittata
to species level and presented a key to distinguish both sexes.