Thinophilus indigenus Becker 1902
Description
Thinophilus indigenus Becker, 1902
(Figure 5A)
Specimens examined
1♂, Asir, Karatha, Al-Ethrebany Fruit Farm, 6–27.v.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♂, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm, 1.ii.2012 Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♀, Jazan, Abu Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village, 4.iii.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS).
Distribution
This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. The species was described from Egypt (Cairo, Assiut, Assuan, Fayûm, Luxor and Suez) and further recorded from the Palaearctic (Algeria, Iran, Israel, Mongolia and Turkey), Afrotropical (Angola, Benin, Cape Verde Islands, Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Angola, Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Yemen) and Oriental regions (Borneo, China (Taiwan), India, Malaya, Nepal and Philippines) (Grichanov 2017a, 2018).
Remarks. This species is known to inhabit the freshwater marshes and streams (Grootaert and Evenhuis 1997).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CERS
- Family
- Dolichopodidae
- Genus
- Thinophilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Becker
- Species
- indigenus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thinophilus indigenus Becker, 1902 sec. Dawah, Ahmad, Abdullah & Grichanov, 2020
References
- Grichanov IYa. 2017 a. Alphabetic list of generic and specific names of predatory flies of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). 2 nd ed. St. Petersburg: VIZR (Plant Protection News Suppl. 23); p. 1 - 563.
- Grichanov IYa. 2018. An annotated catalogue of Afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). St. Petersburg: VIZR (Plant Protection News Suppl. 25); p. 1 - 152.
- Grootaert P, Evenhuis NL. 1997. A new species of Thinophilus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Mus. 48: 74 - 77.