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Published January 31, 2025 | Version v1
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Melanagromyza candidipennis

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Jazan University, Environment and Nature Research Centre, Jazan 45142, P. O. Box 114, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • 2. National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences, Entomology Section, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, UK.

Description

Melanagromyza candidipennis (Lamb, 1912)

(Fig. 11)

Agromyza candidipennis Lamb, 1912: 345.

Material examined. SAUDI ARABIA: 1♂, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm, 1–30.v.2004, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC). GAMBIA: 1♂, W. Div., Bakau Carmaloo Corner, 22.xi.1983, J.C. Deeming (NMWC). YEMEN: 1♀, al-Kadan, 3.xii.1997 – 17.ii.1998, A. van Harten & H.M. Naser (NMWC); 1♀, Lahj, 11.2001, Malaise trap, A. van Harten & A.M. Hager (NMWC).

Distribution. Previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Deeming (2006) and El-Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Seychelles and was further recorded from Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Yemen (Cogan 1980; Deeming 2006; Černý & von Tschirnhaus 2014).

Host remarks. As the specimen collected in Saudi Arabia is not in good condition, the photograph provided here is of a Yemeni specimen from the van Harten collection.

Notes

Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A. & Deeming, John C., 2025, An overview of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia with additional world distributional data, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 5583 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797538

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F2A41DFFA15609FF2A6AA33B7DF80F

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14797549 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/14797538 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFCBDC65FFA95601FFBD6F08383BFF9B (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/146A0D77-A0E6-483E-AA6F-055D743BA9B1 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03F2A41DFFA15609FF2A6AA33B7DF80F (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/254345056 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/308227/taxon/03F2A41DFFA15609FF2A6AA33B7DF80F.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lamb
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Agromyzidae
Genus
Melanagromyza
Species
candidipennis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melanagromyza candidipennis (Lamb, 1912) sec. Dawah & Deeming, 2025

References

  • Lamb, C. G. (1912) The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Vol. 4. No. XlX. Diptera: Lonchaeidae, Sapromyzidae, Ephydridae, Chloropidae, Agromyzidae. Transactions of Linnean Society, London, Series 2, Zoology, 15, 303-348.
  • Deeming, J. C. (2006) Agromyzidae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) from the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Arabia, 21, 395-423.
  • El-Hawagry, M. S., Abdel-Dayem, M. S., El-Sonbati, S. A. & Al Dhafer, H. M. (2017) A preliminary account of the fly fauna in Gard Raydah Nature Reserve, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with new records and biogeographical remarks (Diptera: Insecta). Journal of Natural History, 51 (25 - 26), 1499-1530. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1347299
  • Cogan, B. H. (1980) 65. Family Agromyzidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 639-647.
  • Cerny, M. & von Tschirnhaus, M. (2014) First records of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the Afrotropical Region, with a checklist. Acta Musei Silesiae Scientiae Naturales, 63, 159-176.