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Heterotropus Loew 1873
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Genus HETEROTROPUS Loew
Heterotropus Loew, 1873: 180, 182. Type species: Heterotropus albidipennis Loew, 1873, by monotypy.
Remarks: Heterotropus spp. known as predators (Yeates & Irwin 1992).
Heterotropus aegyptiacus Paramonov, 1929
Heterotropus aegyptiacus Paramonov, 1929: 131 (70). Type locality: Egypt.
Distribution: AF: Egypt [as ”Gebel Elba”], Saudi Arabia [as “South western part”], Sudan. PA: Egypt.
Saudi Arabian localities: Al-Baha: Ghabet Raghdan (Al-Baha Gov.). Makkah: Jabal Daka (Taief Gov.). Riyadh: Rawdhat Al-Sabalah (Al-Zulfi Province).
Dates of collection: March to August.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Loew
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Genus
- Heterotropus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heterotropus Loew, 1873 sec. El-Hawagry & Dhafer, 2019
References
- Loew, H. (1873) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insecten. Von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Zehnter Theil oder vierter Supplementband. Beschreibungen europaischer Dipteren. Dritter Band. H. W. Schmidt, Halle, 320 pp.
- Yeates, D. K. & Irwin, M. (1992) Three new species of Heterotropus Loew (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from South Africa with descriptions of the immature stages and a discussion of the phylogenetic placement of the genus. American Museum Novitates, 3036, 1 - 25.
- Paramonov, S. J. (1929) Beitrage zur Monographie einiger Bombyliiden-Gattungen. (Diptera). Trudy Fizychno- Matematychnogo Viddil Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk, 11 (1), 65 - 225.