The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of 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.
0000-0002-3323-3623
Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, PO Box 9004, Abha- 61413, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. mohd _ robiya @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3323 - 3623
mohd_robiya@hotmail.com
Author
Deeming, John C.
0000-0002-6703-8180
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences, Entomology Section, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, UK. john. deeming @ museumwales. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6703 - 8180
john.deeming@museumwales.ac.uk
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-30
4869
1
1
54
journal article
8861
10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1
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Phaonia virgata
Stein, 1913
(
Fig. 24
)
Phaonia virgata
Stein, 1913: 481
.
FIGURE. 18–22.
Muscidae
species habitus:
18
)
Brontaea tonitrui
(
Wiedemann, 1824
)
, Female;
19
)
Helina clara
(
Meigen, 1826
)
, Female;
20
)
Helina coniformis
(Stein In
Becker, 1903
)
, Male.;
21
)
Helina lucida
(
Stein, 1913
)
, Male;
22
)
Helina ponti
sp. nov.
Male.
FIGURE 23
.
Helina ponti
sp. nov.
Male: A) Fifth sternite from beneath (chaetotaxy omitted from right hand side); B) hypandrium, fused cerci and surstyli from behind (chaetotaxy omitted); C) the same in profile.
Specimens examined.
1f,
Jazan
, Fifa, Al-Tatweer Centre,
5–26.i.2014
,
Malaise trap
,
H.A. Dawah
(
CERS
).
Distribution.
New to
Saudi Arabia
.
van Emden (1948)
recorded
P. virgata
from
Yemen
. No other material is known from the Arabian Peninsula (
Pont 1991: 348
). It was described from
South Africa
.