An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia Author Dawah, Hassan A. Author Abdullah, Mohammed A. 0000-0002-3323-3623 mohd_robiya@hotmail.com Author Ahmad, Syed Kamran 0000-0002-6211-2345 entosaif@rediffmail.com Author Al-Dhafer, Hathal 0000-0002-4911-2332 hdhafer@ksu.edu.sa Author Turner, James 0000-0003-2411-7396 urner@museumwales.ac.uk text Zootaxa 2020 2020-09-25 4855 1 1 69 journal article 8491 10.11646/zootaxa.4855.1.1 1ad9a0ab-ccd4-4047-9a29-f2dd287dc3e3 1175-5326 4411181 28A15E99-7A79-40CA-A0C6-1DC501B69E46 Allograpta calopus ( Loew, 1858 ) ( Figs 8–9 ) Syrphus calopus Loew, 1858: 379 Examined specimens. 2♂ , 2♀ , Abha , Asir , Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre ), 3.iii–3.vi. 2001 , Malaise trap , H.A. Dawah and M.A. Abdullah ( NMWC ; CERS ) ; 1♀ , same locality but 3.iv.2001 ( CERS ) ; 1♀ , same locality but 12.vi.2013 ( CERS ) ; 1♀ , same locality but 20.iv.2013 ( CERS ) ; 1♂ , Najran , Al-Shurfa , Saleh Maqbol Farm , 1–29.iv.2013 , Malaise trap , H.A. Dawah ( CERS ) . Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia . It was described from South Africa and Sudan and is further recorded from other parts of the Afrotropical Region: Eritrea , Ethiopia , Burundi , Kenya , Madagascar , Namibia , Nigeria , South Africa , Sudan , Tanzania , Uganda , Zaire ( Smith & Vockeroth 1980 ; Dirickx 1998 ; Whittington 2003 ) and Yemen ( Smit et al . 2017 ). FIGURE 8–9. Habitus of Allograpta calopus Loew, 1858 . 8 ) Male, dorsal view, 9 ) Female, lateral view. Genus Betasyrphus Matsumura The genus Betasyrphus has approximately 18 species in the Afrotropical, Palaearctic and Oriental regions. Whittington (2003) in his assessment of the Afrotropical Syrphidae fauna, lists Betasyrphus among the Afrotropical genera in need of revision like most of Syrphidae .