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
5030446
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Chrysotus suavis
Loew, 1857
(
Figure 3B
)
Specimens examined
1♀
,
Asir
,
Abha
,
Hay Al-Nusub
,
15–30
.v
.2014, Malaise trap, H.A.
Dawah
(
NMWC
;
CERS
)
.
Distribution
This genus is recorded from
Saudi Arabia
for the first time.
Chrysotus suavis
was described from
Germany
and
Hungary
and is further recorded from many countries of the Palaearctic Region including
Algeria
,
Egypt
,
Iraq
,
Iran
,
Israel
,
Morocco
and
Turkey
; it is excluded from the Afrotropical Region (
DR Congo
) by
Grichanov (2018)
.