The family Stratiomyidae in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Stratiomyoidea) Author El-Hawagry, Magdi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-5265 Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt elhawagry@gmail.com Author Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-2332 King Saud University, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Author Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6276-1740 King Saud University, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Author Hauser, Martin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6368-3529 California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, United States of America text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-03-22 9 64212 64212 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e64212 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e64212 1314-2828-9-e64212 155C2A86F26150509A92A043F7BB1238 Stratiomys cenisia Meigen, 1822 Stratiomys cenisia Meigen, 1822: 136. Type locality: France (Mont Cenis). Stratiomys flaviventris Loew, 1846: 464. Type locality: Italy (Sicily: Siracusa). Stratiomyia ahngeri Pleske, 1901: 364. Type locality: "Transcaspian Region" [probably = Turkmenistan]. Stratiomyia cypria Pleske, 1902: 413. Type locality: Cyprus ( Larnax ). Stratiomyia kervillei Villeneuve, 1911: 4. Type locality: Syria (near "lac de Homs"). Stratiomys hispanica ssp. planes James, 1941: 18. Type locality: Iran (Curum, 100 km from Bouchir). Distribution PA: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia. [Sources: Woodley (2001) and Yimlahi et al. (2017) ] Local distribution and dates of collection : Unknown. Notes This species was listed by Woodley (2001) , Badrawy (2006) and Yimlahi et al. (2017) as recorded from Egypt, but no specimens have been collected or preserved in Egyptian museums to verify these records.