Eumerus cistanchei Efflatoun 1926
Description
Eumerus cistanchei Efflatoun, 1926
(Figs 25–27)
Eumerus cistanchei Efflatoun, 1926: 297
Examined specimens. 1♂, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaity Fruit Farm, 22.iv. 2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♀, same locality but 15.x–30.xi.2004 (CERS); 1♀, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village, 22.iv.2012, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♂, 1♀, Jazan, Farasan Island, Aziz Yousef Village, 2–15.iii.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS; NMWC); 1♂, Najran, Al-Shurfa, Saleh Maqbol Farm, 14–28.v.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS).
Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. E. cistanchei was described from Egypt and is further recorded from Israel and United Arab Emirates (Peck 1988; Smit et al. 2017).
Remarks. This species was reared from the stems of Cistanche phelypae (L.) Cout. (Orobanchaceae), which is an obligate parasitic plant used locally as food (Dirickx 1994). E. cistanchei could be associated with C. phelypae (Table 2) which is recorded from Jazan, Farasan Island by Rahman et al. (2002) and from Jazan mainland by Masrahi (2012) but this needs confirmation as there is no record of E. cistanchei being reared from C. phelypae in Saudi Arabia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CERS , CERS, NMWC
- Event date
- 2004-10-15 , 2012-04-22 , 2013-04-22 , 2014-03-02 , 2014-05-14
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-10-15/11-30 , 2012-04-22 , 2013-04-22 , 2014-03-02/15 , 2014-05-14/28
- Scientific name authorship
- Efflatoun
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Eumerus
- Species
- cistanchei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eumerus cistanchei Efflatoun, 1926 sec. Dawah, Abdullah, Ahmad, Al-Dhafer & Turner, 2020
References
- Efflatoun, B. H. C. (1926) Further notes on Egyptian Syrphidae with description of a new species. Bulletin Societe Entomologique d'Egypte, 19, 295 - 304.
- Peck, L. V. (1988) Family Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Syrphidae- Conopidae. Vol. 8. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 11 - 230.
- 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.
- Dirickx, H. G. (1994) Atlas des dipteres syrphides de la region mediterraneenne. I'nstitut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 317 pp.
- Rahman, M. A., Al-Said, M. S., Mossa, J. S., Al-Yahya, M. A. & Al-Hemaid, M. A. F. (2002) A checklist of Angiosperm flora of Farasan Islands, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 5, 1162 - 1166. https: // doi. org / 10.3923 / pjbs. 2002.1162.1166
- Masrahi, Y. S. (2012) The IIIustrated Guide to the Wild Plants of Jazan Region. Copyright the King Fahad National Library, Jeddah, 437 pp. [in Arabia]