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 Brontaea versicolor ( Stein 1906 ) Limnophora versicolor Stein 1906: 63 . Later transferred into Gymnodia Robineau-Desvoidy , now synonymised with Brontaea Kowarz. Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia and Oman by Pont (1991) and Abu-Zoherah et al . (1993) . It was described from Madagascar . It was recorded from Yemen ( van Emden 1948 ). Biological remarks. Reared from cow dung ( Skidmore 1985 ). Distributional Remarks . Another Brontaea species, B. flexa Wiedemann , has been collected in Oman . The addition of these two species to the Arabian fauna doubles the number of species known from there. Some 40 species are known and occur in all zoogeographical regions but mostly the Palaeotropical.