Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Saudi Arabia: new records, an updated checklist and a new species
Author
Dawah, Hassan A.
Centre for Environmental Research and Studies, Jazan University, P. O. Box 2095, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Author
Abdullah, Mohammed A.
Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, PO Box 9004, Abha- 61413, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Author
Pape, Thomas
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-02-27
5418
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5418.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5418.1.1
1175-5326
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[
Sarcophaga cincta
]
Sarcophaga cincta
Villeneuve, 1910 in
Becker, 1910: 146
. Type locality: Yemen, Socotra Archipelago, Samḥah I.
Remarks.
Listed from Yemen (Socotra) as part of Saudi Arabia by Abu-Zoherah
et al
. (1993, as
Pseudodiscachaeta cincta
without further data). The nominal species, which is known only from the type locality, is in need of a taxonomic revision (Pape 1996), but it has not been possible to trace the type material. The nominal species may represent a species of the genus
Blaesoxipha
Loew
[“La tête étant conformée comme chez
Sarc. lineata
Fall.
[=
Blaesoxipha lapidosa
Pape
], il n’est pas impossible que cette espèce prenne place un jour dans le s.genre Gesneriades” (Villeneuve 1910: 146)]. The nominal species was not mentioned by Verves & Khrokalo (2018).