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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Micromorphus albipes
(Zetterstedt, 1843)
(
Figure 5F
)
Specimens examined
2♂
,
1♀
,
Asir
,
Maraba
,
Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm
,
7–28
.viii
.2013, Malaise trap, H.A.
Dawah
(
CERS
);
1♂
,
Asir
,
Karatha
,
Al-Ethrebany Fruit Farm
,
7–28
.viii
.2013, Malaise trap, H.A.
Dawah
(
CERS
)
.
Distribution
This is the first record from
Saudi Arabia
. The species was described from
Sweden
and further recorded almost all over the world (except for Afrotropics). In the Mediterranean and Middle East, it was recorded from
Algeria
,
Egypt
,
Iraq
,
Israel
,
Morocco
and
Turkey
(
Grichanov 2017a
).