A conspectus of the silver-flies (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae) of the Middle East with descriptions of new species of Chamaemyia Meigen and Melanochthiphila Frey, from the Arabian Peninsula
Author
Ebejer, M. J.
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-13
4319
3
461
482
journal article
32116
10.11646/zootaxa.4319.3.3
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Lipoleucopis pulchra
Raspi, 2008
1♂
,
UAE
, N of
Ajman
,
15–16.iii.2009
, water trap, C. Schmid-Egger (NMWC). Described from the
UAE
, this is only the third specimen known of this species. I recently recorded it from
Morocco
(
Ebejer 2016
).
Distribution.
UAE
and
Morocco
.
TABLE 2.
The species of
Chamaemyiinae
recorded from the Middle East.
Chamaemyia grisea
sp. n.
Saudi Arabia—this paper
Chamaemyia aurilinea
sp. n.
Saudi Arabia—this paper
Yemen—this paper
Chamaemyia xanthopoda
sp. n.
Saudi Arabia—this paper
Chamaemyia juncorum
(Fallén, 1823) Israel—Raspi &
Ebejer 2008
Jordan—Raspi &
Ebejer 2008
Chamaemyia polystigma
(Meigen, 1830) Iran—Tanasijtshuk 1984
Israel—Beschovski &
Merz 1998
Chamaemyia subjuncorum
Tanasijtshuk, 1970 Israel—Tanasijtshuk 1984
Chamaemyia sylvatica
Collin, 1966
Beschovski & Merz 1998
Melanochthiphila arabica
sp. n.
Saudi Arabia—this paper