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Eumerus charmatus Smit in Smit 2017

Description

Eumerus charmatus Smit in Smit et al. (2017)

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Eumerus charmatus Smit in Smit et al. (2017): 584

Examined specimens. 1♂, Jazan, Fifa, Al-Tatweer Centre, 5–26.i.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♂, 1♀, same locality but 26.i.–16.ii.2014 (NMWC); 1♂, 1♀, same locality but 3–24.ix.2014 (NMWC); 3♂, 1♀, same locality but 15.ix.2015 (NMWC; CERS); 1♀, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village, 25.ii–7.iii.2011, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 1♂, 1♀, same locality but 5–20.vi.2011 (NMWC); 2♀, same locality but 3–10.x.2012 (NMWC); 1♀, same locality but 1–15.xii.2012 (NMWC); 1♀, same locality but 19.iv–12.v.2013 (NMWC); 1♂, 1♀, same locality but 24.vi.–8.vii.2013 (NMWC); 1♂, 1♀, same locality but 25.i–16.ii.2014 (NMWC); 1♀, same locality but 4–26.i.2014 (NMWC); 1♂, 1♀, same locality but 4–25.iii.2014 (NMWC); 1♀, same locality but 17.v–9.vi.2014 (NMWC); 1♀, Jazan, Farasan Island, Al-Marq, 23.ii–15.iii.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 1♀, Jazan, Farasan Island, Aziz Yousef Village, 14.iii.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 1♂, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan, Hay Al-Sad, 6–27.viii.2013, Malaise trap, H.A.Dawah (NMWC); 1♀, Jazan, Basahy Farm, 23.vi– 19.viii.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 3♂, Jazan, Harob, Wadi Lejab, 30.xi.–17.xii.2015, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS).

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from Yemen.

Notes

Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4855 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4411181

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References

  • Smit, J. T., van Harten, A. & Ketelaar, R. (2017) Order Diptera, family Syrphidae the hoverflies of the Arabian Peninsula. In: van Harten, A. (Eds.), Arthropod fauna of the UAE. Vol. 6. Department of the President's Affairs, Abu Dhabi, pp. 572 - 612.