Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera) Author El-Hawagry, Magdi S. Author Gilbert, Francis text Zootaxa 2019 2019-04-05 4577 2 201 248 journal article 27386 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.1 edfb4093-4bf9-40ed-9fb4-bf492ccad12e 1175-5326 2629643 959CC8F8-E214-4A56-9343-CBCC2CBD43DD Eupeodes ( Metasyrphus ) nuba ( Wiedemann, 1830 ) Syrphus nuba Wiedemann, 1830 : 136 . Type locality: Sudan (Nubia). Syrphus interrumpens Walker, 1871 : 273 . Type locality: Egypt ( Cairo ). Syrphus rufinasutus Bigot, 1884 : 88 . Type locality: Morocco . Didea annandalei Brunetti, 1919 : 299 . Type locality: Iran (Seistan: Nasratabad). Syrphus novigradensis Coe, 1960 : 73 . Type locality: Yugoslavia (Dalmatia [now in Croatia ]). World distribution : AF: Eastern parts of the Afrotropical Region from Eritrea and Ethiopia south to South Africa , Sudan , UAE .OR: India , Nepal . PA: Afghanistan , Armenia , Canary Is., China , Egypt , Iran , Israel , Mediterranean basin (from southern France to Italy ( Sicily ) and parts of the former Yugoslavia , Crete, Cyprus , Lebanon , Israel , Egypt and Morocco ), Mongolia , Morocco , Romania , Switzerland , Syria , Transcaucasia and south-western parts of Asia ( Uzbekistan , Kirghizstan, Tajikistan ) to Afghanistan and Mongolia . Egyptian localities : Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Cairo [ Walker 1871 ].?Upper Nile Valley:?Nuba ( Shaumar & Kamal 1978 ). Activity period in Egypt : April to September. Remarks : This species usually flies round and over low-growing vegetation, settles on low-growing plants, and visits the yellow flowers of the Compositae ( Speight 2017 ) .