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 Aspidacantha atra Kertsz, 1916 Aspidacantha atra Kertesz , 1916: 155. Type locality: Eritrea (Assab) [Assab belongs now to Eritrea not to Ethiopia as written in world catalogues]. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: H. Pohl ; sex: 1 female ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Egypt ; locality: Hurghada ; decimalLatitude: 27.23370 ; decimalLongitude: 33.8256 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Light trap ; eventDate: 9/11-22/1994 ; Record Level : institutionCode: CSCA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.20525 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4101 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweeping ; eventDate: 06-07-2014 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4089 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Light trap ; eventDate: 02-21-2014 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4089 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Light trap ; eventDate: 07-31-2015 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.20525 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4102 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweeping ; eventDate: 09-05-2015 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4089 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Light trap ; eventDate: 09-05-2015 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4089 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 09-05-2015 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.204417 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4124 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 02-20-2014 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al. ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.20525 ; decimalLongitude: 42.4101 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser ; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 06-07-2014 ; Record Level : institutionCode: KSMA Distribution AF: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia [as "south western part"], Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe. PA: Egypt, Israel, Russia, Turkmenistan. [Sources: Lindner (1936) , Woodley (2001) , Hauser (2008) and El-Hawagry et al. (2017) ] Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 2 ): EGYPT: Eastern Desert: Hurghada (September). Western Desert: Siwa Oasis (August). [Sources: Lindner (1930) and museum material]. SAUDI ARABIA: Asir: Raydah Nature Reserve (February to December). [Sources: El-Hawagry et al. (2017) and collected material]