The family Conopidae (Diptera) in Egypt and Saudi Arabia Author El-Hawagry, Magdi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-5265 Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt elhawagry@gmail.com Author Soliman, Ahmed Mostafa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-713X Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, PO BOX 2460, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Cairo, Egypt ammsoliman@gmail.com Author Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-2332 Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, PO BOX 2460, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia hdhafer@ksu.edu.sa text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-01-13 9 60287 60287 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60287 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60287 1314-2828-9-e60287 52C8BC2A7CCF533DB094FCDE6B1515E8 Physocephala pusilla (Meigen, 1804) Conops pusilla Meigen, 1824: 280. Type locality: Germany (Frankreich). Conops lacera Meigen, 1824: 130. Type locality: Austria. Conops pumila Macquart, 1835: 26. Type locality: France. Conops persica Becker, 1913: 609. Type locality: Iran. Conops punctithorax Becker, 1913: 611. Type locality: Iran. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: R.M. ; sex: 1 male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1568897; scientificName: Physocephala pusilla; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt ; locality: Abu-Rawash ; decimalLatitude: 30.043845 ; decimalLongitude: 31.092932 ; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry ; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping ; eventDate: 05-26-1926 ; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: R.M. ; sex: 1 male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1568897; scientificName: Physocephala pusilla; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt ; locality: Abu-Rawash ; decimalLatitude: 30.043845 ; decimalLongitude: 31.092932 ; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry ; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping ; eventDate: 07-18-1925 ; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Bdair ; sex: 1 female ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1568897; scientificName: Physocephala pusilla; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt ; locality: Ezbet-Naghl ; decimalLatitude: 32.1111 ; decimalLongitude: 32.1625 ; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry ; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping ; eventDate: 05-06-1916 ; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: R.M. ; sex: 1 male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1568897; scientificName: Physocephala pusilla; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Egypt ; locality: Kafr Hakim ; decimalLatitude: 30.0808 ; decimalLongitude: 31.1164 ; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry ; dateIdentified: June 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping ; eventDate: 05-20-1930 ; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Distribution PA: Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Europe (widespread), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan. Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 6 ): EGYPT: Eastern Desert: Cairo-Suez Road, El-Wasfia, Geneifa, Wadi Digla, Wadi Gharagid (April to September); Fayoum: Fayoum City, Kom Osheem (March to October); Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Abu-Rawash, Ashmoun, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Kafr Hakim, Maadi, Mansouriah, Pyramids (April to October); Sinai: Wadi El-Lega, Wadi El-Rabba, Wadi Firan, Wadi Isla, Wadi Khoshbi (April to August); Western Desert: Madinet El-Sadat, Siwa Oasis (July to October) [Sources: Zalat et al. (2008) , Azmy (2016) and museum material in EFC and ESEC]. SAUDI ARABIA: locality and date unknown [Source: Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993) as Conops lacera ].