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A contribution to the knowledge of fly fauna in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: new country records and an account of flies identified from Rawdhats, Riyadh Region, with biogeographical remarks (Insecta: Diptera)

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El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2018): A contribution to the knowledge of fly fauna in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: new country records and an account of flies identified from Rawdhats, Riyadh Region, with biogeographical remarks (Insecta: Diptera). Journal of Natural History 52 (21-22): 1377-1393, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1456575, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1456575

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