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 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-10-30 4869 1 1 54 journal article 8861 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1 c285848a-ccaf-4f48-8e05-7f9cf6acf225 1175-5326 4418246 C34E9D0C-336A-4F4B-A670-2F342470839D Atherigona ( Atherigona ) conigera van Emden, 1940 ( Fig. 28 ) Atherigona ( Atherigona ) conigera van Emden, 1940: 118 . Specimens examined. 2m , Asir , Al-Souda , Bani Mazen , 19.vi.–9.vii.2013 , Malaise trap , H . A . Dawah ( CERS ) ; 2m , Asir , Abha , Hay Al-Nusub , 6–27.vii.2013 , Malaise trap , H . A . Dawah ( CERS ) ; 1m , Asir , Abha , Hay Al-Menhel , 1–19.ii.2014 , Malaise trap , H . A . Dawah ( NMWC ; CERS ) ; 3m , 2f, Asir , Abha , Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan , Hay Al-Sad , 25.ii.–25.v.2002 , Malaise trap , H . A . Dawah ( NMWC ) . Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah (2009) ; El-Hawagry et al . (2017) . It was described from Kenya , Uganda and Yemen . No other material is known from the Arabian Peninsula ( Pont 1991 ). Biological remarks. Reared from Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst in Kenya and Pennisetum purpureum Schumach in Ethiopia .