Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera
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Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera (Cresson, 1939)
Discocerina mera Cresson, 1939: 6.
Orasiopa mera: Zatwarnicki & Mathis 2001: 40 [generic combination]; Mathis et al. 2017: 696 [United Arab Emirates].
Specimens examined. 1 ♂, Jazan, Farasan Island (Under the Al-Saged Bridge), 22. v. 2014, sweeping on seaweed, H.A. Dawah (CERS).
Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. This species was described from Thailand and further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Aldabra, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates; Australasian/Oceanian Region: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), Caroline Islands, Eniwetok Atoll, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Guam, Hawaiian Islands, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea (Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago), Solomon Islands, Society Islands, Tahiti; Nearctic Region: Antilles, Bermuda, United States (Florida); Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago; Oriental Region: Malaya, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam; Palaearctic Region: Japan.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CERS
- Event date
- 2014-05-22
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-05-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Cresson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ephydridae
- Genus
- Orasiopa
- Species
- mera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera (Cresson, 1939) sec. Dawah, Ahmad, Abdullah & Zatwarnicki, 2019
References
- Cresson, E. T. (1939) Description of a new genus and ten new species of Ephydridae, with a discussion of the species of the genus Discomyza (Diptera). Notulae Natulae, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphi a, 21, 1 - 12.
- Zatwarnicki, T. & Mathis, W. N. (2001) A Generic Classification of the tribe Discocerinini (Diptera: Ephydridae). Annales Zoologici, 51 (1), 5 - 51.
- Mathis, W. N., Zatwarnicki, T., Stuke, J. H. & Deeming, J. C. (2017) A conspectus on shore-flies from the United Arab Emirates. In: van Harten, A. (Ed.), Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates. Vol. 6. Dar Al-Ummah Printing, Publishing, Distribution & Advertising, Abu Dhabi, pp. 636 - 61. [754 pp.]