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Eumerus punctifrons Loew 1857
Description
Eumerus punctifrons Loew, 1857
(Fig. 36)
Eumerus punctifrons Loew, 1857: 85
Examined specimens. 1♀, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village 11.xii.2011 – 13.i.2012, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♀, Najran, Al-Shurfa, 1–29.iv.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC).
Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from Syria and further recorded from Afghanistan, Algeria, Cape Verde Islands, Morocco, Tunisia (Peck 1988; Ghorpadé 2014), Yemen and UAE (Dirickx 1994; Smit et al. 2017).
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 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4411181
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CERS , NMWC
- Event date
- 2011-12-11 , 2013-04-01
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-12-11/2012-01-13 , 2013-04-01/29
- Scientific name authorship
- Loew
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Eumerus
- Species
- punctifrons
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eumerus punctifrons Loew, 1857 sec. Dawah, Abdullah, Ahmad, Al-Dhafer & Turner, 2020
References
- Loew, H. (1857) Nachricht uber syrische Dipteren. Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien, 7, 79 - 86.
- 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.
- Ghorpade, K. (2014) An updated Check-list of the Hover-flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) recorded in the Indian subcontinent. Colemania, 44, 1 - 30.
- Dirickx, H. G. (1994) Atlas des dipteres syrphides de la region mediterraneenne. I'nstitut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 317 pp.
- 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.