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Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed K., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz, 2019, An overview of the Ephydridae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, pp. 401-445 in Zootaxa 4711 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3586476

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Additional details

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.]