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Atylotus aegyptiacus Krober
Description
Atylotus aegyptiacus (Kröber), 1925
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Ochrops aegyptiacus Kröber, 1925b: 235.
Type locality. Kingi Mariout, Cleopatra (Egypt).
Diagnosis. Length. (female) body 12.2 mm, wing 10.5 mm.
Female: Whitish ashy-grey species; frons with sides not parallel, with a trace of upper callus; frontal index 2.64; eyes bare; abdomen without patterns.
Local distribution: Coastal strip.
Geographical distribution. Egypt.
Specimens examined. Cleopatra (Ramleh), 13.VII.1924 (1 female “cotype”) (PPDD).
FIGURES. 1–6. Female abdomens. 1. Atylotus aegyptiacus (Kröber, 1926). 2. Atylotus shagrensis sp. nov. 3. Atylotus Agricola (Wiedemann, 1828). 4. Atylotus farinosus (Szilády, 1915). 5. Atylotus agrestis (Wiedemann, 1828). 6. Atylotus pulchellus (Loew, 1858).
Notes
Published as part of Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Fadl, Hassan H. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2019, Review of the horse flies of the genus Atylotus Osten Sacken, 1876 (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Egypt, with description of a new species, pp. 79-86 in Zootaxa 4551 (1) on pages 80-81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/2622617
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tabanidae
- Genus
- Atylotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Krober
- Species
- aegyptiacus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atylotus aegyptiacus (Krober, 1925) sec. El-Hassan, Badrawy, Fadl & Mohammad, 2019
References
- Krober, O. (1925 b) Neue Dipteren aus Aegypten. Bulletin de la Societe Royale Entomologique d'Egypte, 9, 232 - 243.
- Wiedemann, C. (1828) Ausssereuropaische zweiflugelige Insecten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Erster Theil, Schulz, Hamm, xxxii + 608 pp.
- Szilady, Z. (1915) Subgenus Ochrops, eine neue Untergattung der Gattung Tabanus L. 1761. (Dipt.). Entomologische Mitteilungen, 4, 93 - 107.
- Loew, H. (1858) Zur kenntnis der europaischen Tabanus - Arten. Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien, 8, 571 - 612.