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Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb 1912
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Description
Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912
(Fig. 29)
Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912: 324.
Allotrichoma outambense Canzoneri 1986: 72: Mathis & Zatwarnicki 2003: 620 [synonymy].
Specimens examined. 1 ♂?, Jazan, Harob, Wadi Lajeb, sweeping, 30. xii. 2015, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1 ♂?, Jazan, Harob, Wadi Al-Razan, sweeping, 30. xii. 2015, H.A. Dawah (CERS).
Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia and Arabian Peninsula. This species was described from the Seychelles island of Mahé and further recorded from Sierra Leone.
Remarks. We could not determine the sex of this specimen without macerating it, which would destroy the patterning.
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 425, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3586476
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CERS
- Event date
- 2015-12-30
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-12-30
- Scientific name authorship
- Lamb
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ephydridae
- Genus
- Allotrichoma
- Species
- argentipraetextum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Allotrichoma argentipraetextum Lamb, 1912 sec. Dawah, Ahmad, Abdullah & Zatwarnicki, 2019
References
- Lamb, C. G. (1912) The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Vol. 4. No. XlX. Diptera: Lonchaeidae, Sapromyzidae, Ephydridae, Chloropidae, Agromyzidae. Transactions of Linnean Society, London, 2 (Zoology), 15, 303 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1912. tb 00104. x
- Canzoneri, S. (1986) Nuovi dati sugli Ephydridae (Diptera) della Sierra Leone, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, Sezione: Missioni ed Esplorazioni, X, 260, 67 - 75.
- Mathis, W. N. & Zatwarnicki, T. (2003) Shore flies of the Republic of Seychelles (Diptera: Ephydridae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa, 53 (4), 585 - 650.