An overview of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia with additional world distributional data Author Dawah, Hassan A. Jazan University, Environment and Nature Research Centre, Jazan 45142, P. O. Box 114, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Author Deeming, John C. National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences, Entomology Section, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, UK. text Zootaxa 2025 2025-01-31 5583 1 1 38 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.1 1175-5326 146A0D77-A0E6-483E-AA6F-055D743BA9B1 Agromyza rondensis Strobl, 1900 ( Figs 9–10 ) Agromyza nigripes Meigen var. rondensis Strobl, 1900: 62 . Material examined. SAUDI ARABIA : 8♂ , 11♀ , Al-Qasim , Buraydah , ex irrigated wheat seedling of cultivar Yecorh , Rojo , 1.1987, E.A. Elhog , ( NMWC ) ; 1♂ , Riyadh , Rohodet Khorim , 18.ii.2012 , J.C. Deeming ; 1♀ , same data but 19.ii.2012 ( NMWC ) . GREECE : 1♂ , Crete , Nomós , Lassithi nr Kalamafka , 14–21.x.1997 500m , swept from irrigated Sorghum helepense (L.) Pers. ( Poaceae ) in olive grove, J.C. Deeming & M.R. Wilson ( NMWC ) ; 1♀ , Lasithi Plateau , 2km W. Mesa Lasithi , 15.x.1997 , J.C. Deeming & M.R. Wilson . TUNISIA : 1♂ , Hammamet , 25.x.1993 , D.A. Edwards ( NMWC ) . Distribution. Previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Deeming (2006) , this species was described from Spain and was further recorded from the Palaearctic Region: Austria , Belarus , Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Egypt , Estonia , France , Germany , Great Britain , Greece , incl. Crete and Dodecanes, Is., Hungary , Iran , Israel , Italy , Lithuania , Malta , Morocco , Netherlands , Norway , Palestine , Poland , Portugal , Rumania , Russia , Slovakia , Spain , South Korea , Sweden , Switzerland , Tunisia , Turkey , Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia , ( Deeming 2006 ; Černý et al . 2018 ; Černý et al . 2020 ; Ebejer 2021 ). Host remarks. Deeming (2006: 405) reported the differences between the puparia of A. rondensis and those of A. megalopsis Hering , a related species known to attack barley ( H. vulgare ) and winter wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) in Iraq . The larvae form leaf mines on barley ( H. vulgare ), rye ( S. cereale ), winter wheat ( T. aestivum ) and the genera Arrhenatherum P. Beauv. ( Poaceae ), Bromus Scop. ( Poaceae ), Calamagrostis Adanson ( Poaceae ), Brachypodium P. Beauv. ( Poaceae ), Dactylis L. ( Poaceae ), Oryzopsis Michx. ( Poaceae ), Poa L. ( Poaceae ), Sorghum Moench ( Poaceae ) and Triticum L. ( Poaceae ) ( Spencer 1973a: 258 ; Černý et al . 2018 ).